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Sama: I love the OpenAI team so much

50 points| nickrubin | 2 years ago |twitter.com | reply

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[+] wokwokwok|2 years ago|reply
I mean, this is getting ridiculous now.

Really, sort yourselves out.

This veiled tweet stuff is just drama queens being dramatic for the sake of it at this point.

I care what happens to openAI … but at this point I give literally zero fucks what people are tweeting and what it may / may not / according some insider / outsider / person close to it who renames nameless might mean or not mean.

Sam tweeting “I <3 openAI” is not HN news worthy content.

[+] s1artibartfast|2 years ago|reply
There is this strange online phenomenon where people seek out content they dont like and then get bothered that it exists instead of just not paying attention.
[+] evbogue|2 years ago|reply
This is how the Livejournal generation communicates. We don't have press releases or proper sit down board meetings. To communicate about a job loss or job gain we must have feelings and whatever music we are listening to right now.
[+] awb|2 years ago|reply
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai...

> Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him.

> Altman holding talks with the company just a day after he was ousted indicates that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall without him. Hours after he was axed, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the two have been talking to friends and investors about starting another company. A string of senior researchers also resigned on Friday, and people close to OpenAI say more departures are in the works.

Maybe a deal actually went through? Or he’s referring to the resignations?

[+] dragonwriter|2 years ago|reply
> Altman holding talks with the company just a day after he was ousted indicates that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall without him.

OTOH, "sources close to Altman" saying that that is happening to the media just says that people close to Altman (quite likely acting as proxies for Altman) want it to be seen that way.

> Maybe a deal actually went through?

Or maybe he is expressing his positive feelings for the team in the hope of provoking some reciprocation from OpenAI workers to exert pressure on the board to make the thing his camp is saying is happening actually happen, or, if negotiations are actually happening, to make them more likely to be resolved in his favor.

[+] gkoberger|2 years ago|reply
No, he's just publicly making it clear how much support he has internally. (And to be fair, I do believe that's how he feels, of course – he's probably appreciative of everyone backing him.)

If there was a deal, he wouldn't have tweeted it this way.

[+] karmasimida|2 years ago|reply
This is so ambiguous. It could mean he loves the team and comes back, or the team loves him so much they decided to join him in next venture.

Who knows. But definitely a power move to turn up the heat to get good wills from the crowd

[+] yumraj|2 years ago|reply
It sounds more like FUD being spread by Sam camp. I just don’t see a reason as to why the board would resign.

But, what do I, or anyone except the people involved, know.

OTOH, the tweet sounds/read weird. Is he trying to recruit folks for his next venture.

[+] dr_dshiv|2 years ago|reply
“hi if i start something new, will you join me?”

If enough yeses at openai, sama has plenty of leverage for coming back or starting up.

[+] malwarebytess|2 years ago|reply
This strikes me as narcissistic. Maybe the board wasn't wrong.
[+] gkoberger|2 years ago|reply
Why do you think appreciating the people who have worked with you for years (and currently are supporting you) is narcissistic?
[+] Lejoon|2 years ago|reply
1 year ago people were complaining that OpenAI wasn’t acting enough like a non-profit.

Now when they adhere to their mission statement and valued they get totally overrun by silicon valley tech bros.

The money/profit leg of OpenAI seems to be in actual control.

Money talks.