[rococode]

Somewhat hidden beneath the huge headline of Altman being kicked out is that Brockman (chairman) is also out. Which could indicate something more systemically wrong than just a typical "CEO did something bad" situation.

> As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.

[alvis]

Remember that Greg Brockman is a co-founder of OpenAI, and like Sam Altman, he is a main driving force behind the scene. Now both are gone. There must be something really really seriously wrong.

[erupt7893]

Pretty sure Ilya Sutskever is the most valuable out of the group

[knd775]

Not gone, just out of power.

[williamcotton]

Which implies a coup. Four voting against two.

And it could be for any reason, even purely ethical like, “we don’t want to license this technology to better sell products to tweens”.

[bushbaba]

A coup wouldn't have him immediately fired. Instead he'd be placed in some advisory position while they transition in a new CEO. The immediate firing means scandal of some sort.

[b112]

How do these board members relate to Microsoft's holdings? Is Microsoft making a play here?

Honestly have no idea, but I'm sure a shift of control could cause this.

[harryh]

Brockman is off the board but not fired. Which is weird right? You'd think if he was involved in whatever the really bad thing is then he would be fired.

[floxy]

Could be something like Brockman pushing to investigate further, before having the vote, and the rest of the board not liking that.

[foota]

Maybe Sam was the ring leader and he just went along with it?

[sulam]

It's probably simple reporting logic. Having a board member reporting to someone not on the board would be problematic.

[coffeebeqn]

There was no AI - it was just interns answering questions on the site known as ChatGPT

[sfe22]

Took the “Do Things that Don't Scale” to the absolute limit

[fragmede]

Turns out, there's no such thing as an LLM, it's all been a hustle with a low-paid army of writers in Kenya that Sama and gdb have been giving iv meth to.