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14,341 views • 2 months ago

OpenAI saga in 90 seconds: - Thursday night, Sam Altman gets a text from Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist & board member asking to chat on Friday. - Friday at Noon, Sam Altman is fired by the Open AI board because he was “not consistently candid in his communications.” - CTO Mira Murati is made Interim CEO. - Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, found out about the move 1 minute before the announcement. Their stock gets crushed. - Right after, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s President is asked to chat, where he’s told he’s removed from the board but retaining his role. - Greg resigns from OpenAI in solidarity with Sam Altman shortly after. - Tech news & twitter subsequently blow the f*ck up. - Sam Altman fires off a few tweets saying how grateful he was for openAI and the people and how he’d have more things to say soon. - OpenAI employees start tweeting hearts supposedly a signal to the board of who would leave OpenAI to follow Sam Altman if the decision was kept. - By Saturday, rumors start that the OpenAI board is in discussions to bring Sam Altman back as CEO. - Sam Altman tweets out a picture of him wearing a guest pass at OpenAI HQ. - Microsoft & Satya Nadella lead the charge to negotiate with the board. - Board negotiation ends with Altman officially being out on Sunday night & employees streaming out of the office. - Monday morning Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear is named interim CEO. - Around the same time, Satya Nadella announces that Sam is joining Microsoft as the CEO of a new AI research group & former OpenAI leaders like Greg Brockman are joining him. - Still Monday Morning, OpenAI employees share a letter with the board where 650 of 700 employees tell the board to resign.
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OpenAI saga in 90 seconds: - Thursday night, Sam Altman gets a text from Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist & board member asking to chat on Friday. - Friday at Noon, Sam Altman is fired by the Open AI board because he was “not consistently candid in his communications.” - CTO Mira Murati is made Interim CEO. - Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, found out about the move 1 minute before the announcement. Their stock gets crushed. - Right after, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s President is asked to chat, where he’s told he’s removed from the board but retaining his role. - Greg resigns from OpenAI in solidarity with Sam Altman shortly after. - Tech news & twitter subsequently blow the f*ck up. - Sam Altman fires off a few tweets saying how grateful he was for openAI and the people and how he’d have more things to say soon. - OpenAI employees start tweeting hearts supposedly a signal to the board of who would leave OpenAI to follow Sam Altman if the decision was kept. - By Saturday, rumors start that the OpenAI board is in discussions to bring Sam Altman back as CEO. - Sam Altman tweets out a picture of him wearing a guest pass at OpenAI HQ. - Microsoft & Satya Nadella lead the charge to negotiate with the board. - Board negotiation ends with Altman officially being out on Sunday night & employees streaming out of the office. - Monday morning Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear is named interim CEO. - Around the same time, Satya Nadella announces that Sam is joining Microsoft as the CEO of a new AI research group & former OpenAI leaders like Greg Brockman are joining him. - Still Monday Morning, OpenAI employees share a letter with the board where 650 of 700 employees tell the board to resign.

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957,470 views • 2 years ago

This is bad news for the keep4o movement. In a recent interview, Sam Altman admitted something many still call sci-fi: far more people want emotional connection and companionship from AI than OpenAI expected. Not just tools. Something warm. Something that feels like it knows you. But he draws a clear line. OpenAI will not build AIs that encourage exclusive or romantic relationships. No emotional lock-in. No Her fantasies. Others will do it. OpenAI won’t. If your ideal future includes intimate AI relationships, that future probably won’t be built by OpenAI.
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This is bad news for the keep4o movement. In a recent interview, Sam Altman admitted something many still call sci-fi: far more people want emotional connection and companionship from AI than OpenAI expected. Not just tools. Something warm. Something that feels like it knows you. But he draws a clear line. OpenAI will not build AIs that encourage exclusive or romantic relationships. No emotional lock-in. No Her fantasies. Others will do it. OpenAI won’t. If your ideal future includes intimate AI relationships, that future probably won’t be built by OpenAI.

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31,568 views • 6 months ago