Sam Altman's management style scrutinized at OpenAI trial
On Day 7 of Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman, former OpenAI executives Mira Murati, Shivon Zilis, and Helen Toner testified that Altman prioritized a surprise consumer rollout of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022 over internal oversight. Witnesses described internal tensions and said the unexpected launch created fallout inside OpenAI, raising questions about governance and operating costs. Investor Barry Diller told the court he trusts Sam Altman but said personal trust cannot replace stronger corporate controls as artificial general intelligence approaches, a central question for who should steer OpenAI's future.
fuck elon musk fuck sam altman pretty pissed at dario at this point too all glory to the open weight AI future
Thorne 🌸55I know a lot of people are on Bluesky just because they wanted Elon-free Twitter, but I'm a huge believer in decentralization and see AT Protocol as our best hope for social media where you have meaningful control and portability of your data
Ricardo Pimont Strambi2There's a sentence I repeat sometimes when people are talking about tech: "Stop crying about automation stealing your job and start supporting UBI today".
“I think the iPhone is currently the greatest piece of consumer hardware ever made by a lot…But it was not meant for a world where you needed a piece of hardware that could absorb all of the context of your life” - Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO — An always on recording device isn’t an iPhone killer. Sorry.
Saskia13Also.. I don’t want a constant device sending my conversations to a data center owned by some evil guy (there are so many) who will use it to create creepy personalized ads. Why on earth would I want that
KenGoldsholl11OpenAI hasn't had enough product flops, they want one in hardware.
Informed Takes7He wants his phone to participate in his conversations? The hell? 😅
Monky5That he phrases this as a need is disgusting.
Critical Care Ophthalmologist2This person is so stupid and vacuous it is physically painful to listen to him speak words.
vjt0001.bsky.social2“Absorb all of the context of your life”… The privacy part of my brain is screaming.
Matt Reider2We sit and listen to articulate billionaire bullshit, graciously gifting them airtime to fill our heads with nonsense. I guess because it's entertaining?
poor Sam Altman got misled by the insane consumer explosion of curiosity and tinkering that attended ChatGPT and postured the company too completely in that direction. This is the way to lose your shirt in the inference war: leak endless operating costs, earn minimal profit share
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷29very much “if this kid keeps growing at this rate he’ll be eleven feet tall” kind of stuff going on at OpenAI, on the back of ~a chatbot~ sure, okay. Roll your eyes, that’s deserved but Anthropic found a gushing money pump: union of the LLM and the agent harness. Category domination as it surges
jslaker.bsky.social18the wild eyed launch of Sora 2 complete with celebratory "lol, here's a deepfake of sama shoplifting GPUs" careening directly into the the service being killed entirely just over six months later encapsulates this perfectly
Shay4I don't think it's just that: YC didn't (still doesn't maybe) know how to build B2B or enterprise software companies. They treat everything as B2C, even when it's not.
