Open AI costs an outrageous amount of money to run and although it's not as empty as metaverse or web3, it was incredibly overhyped in its potiential, as usual.

He probably thought like uber and other companies he could run cash negative for a while and play the game everybody plays. But debt is not cheap now, and he likely had to lie to investors to keep things alive. They probably all lost a chunk of money when you actually look at the books.

Edit: more news came out that the chief scientist and the board organized a coup to get him out under the pretense he was going too fast.

Open AI is a for profit company owned by a non-profit, which brings a huge conflict when it comes to scientific advancement versus product monetization. It may be that they were totally wrong in doing this legally speaking (the non-profit) but did the right thing for scientific advancement and the human race itself.

We'll know more soon I expect

my hand reaching for the SICKOS meme like a gunslinger reaching for a revolver during a showdown

the thread is too gigantic to do pull quotes, but the number of poor delusional fucks who’ve decided this must be due to Altman’s business genius (somehow), the birth of an AGI that’s blackmailing the board, that this is just how executive boards normally act, or are just generally arguing that these severely out of touch rich folk must all be acting reasonably and legally in spite of all experience to the contrary is kind of astounding

You know

I’ve load tested my fucking still-wordpress blog some years back, and even then I managed to get something like 1600~1700rps out of it without at all trying hard (read: “I think I changed the fpm pool at some point”)

I am of course not surprised their software is the way it is (subversion commits are dangerous to a man of paulie g’s stature, of course), but it is hilariously recursively poignant: the very site where you may find a number of Weekend Code This-ers who - because of the mere trick of advancement in computing technology - may actually be right (for writing a new orange site)……just couldn’t

Who said satire is dead?!

What? This can't be real? My custom code I cooked last year for a webservice in python is able to run multiprocess by now. How do there people still have high-paying jobs and I am stuggling monthly? goddamn!

I’m sure they can just ask ChatGPT for a strategy on how to deal with this

……..wait

What (from a heavily downvoted comment there):

"Is Helen Toner CIA or just the kind of person who talks to Stare Department employees in secure locations several times a quarter? She has a degree in CIA from CIA university and works at an institute that is have in glove with USFEDGOV."

New conspiracy theory, the CIA forced Altman out.

(Also the LW style site sucks so much for linking comments)

My prediction, he was fired because he doesn't take the risk of AGI seriously enough. The next CEO is going to end up here a lot. Because that would be the silliest option, them ignoring the stories from his sister, any embezzlement or harassment but full on going 'he picked stopping the torture instead of stopping the dust specks'

Given the recent SBF all% speedruns…