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OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff
(www.theguardian.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
So staff requested the board take action, then those same staff threatened to quit because the board took action?
That doesn't add up.
The whole thing sounds like some cockamamie plot derived from chatgpt itself. Corporate America is completely detached from the real world.
That's exactly what it is. A ploy for free attention and it's working.
There’s no way this was a “ploy”.
Except for the cunning part it seems to be a pretty good description.
There’s no way the board members tarnished their reputations and lost their jobs so they could get attention for a company they no longer work for and don’t have a stake in. That’s just silly.
I don’t think the firing was a ploy, but I do think the retroactive justification of ‘we were building a model so powerful it scared us’ is a ploy to drum up hype. Just like all the other times they’ve said the same thing.
Ah ok. I agree with that.