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 I kept thinking the Sam Altman fired from OpenAI was the LLMs hallucinating. Checked twitter. Didn’t believe it. Then confirmed at google news. 

I heard rumors of sexual harassment and assault by senior people at OpenAI. No way to confirm if they’re legit but it seemed credible to me, and that Sam was covering it up. I wonder if that’s what he lied to the board about. 
 Certainly possible, but it doesn’t help the board to be opaque in its statements if that’s the case. They earn back trust by making the point publicly that they don’t tolerate that behavior. The truth will come out and they’ll look just as complicit, which is another invitation to litigation. 

This is an organization that uses clever naming and a modicum of intercompany structuring finesse to present an inaccurate (or more generously stated, incomplete) image to the market (open, it’s not; nonprofit, but not really given its for-profit related party/ies; CEO doesn’t have equity, not in the nonprofit but the whole structure is opaque so who really knows). The board knows exactly how the business is structured, so it seems strange that they are concerned about the CEO’s transparency when they have an org chart that was deliberately and purposefully designed to be the exact opposite. 
 Puis comment ils ont laissé faire le tour des institutions et rencontrer des chefs d'Etats afin de les convaincre de l'utilité de manière éthique et responsable de l'usage  de son oeuvre . Savez vous quand même de beaucoup de pays d'Europe et à la commission de l'EU des professionnels de l'IA et de son usage éthique l'ont  ont étudié avant de donner leurs autorisations même des professionnels universitaires qui ont donné leurs avis 
 😱 disgusting if true 🙏🏽 
 Wait, are you saying you personally heard first hand accusations from senior leadership at OpenAI?  Talk about a scoop... 
 Yes, she was considering options and debating the value of going public. There’s a tremendous cost to a women’s career and personal safety if they go public. I’m going to respect her privacy but I do wonder if the board learned of this, asked Sam, and he lied.  
 “Tremendous cost,” yeah, like whistleblower payments and becoming the CEO of bumble.

What drivel. If she had cause, she would have skipped to the mic to come forward. 
 "Scan my balls harder papi!" 
 😂 
 So they can sexually harass and the AI won't write erotic fanfics for me? Hypocrites.  
 My speculation is that AGI is much closer than people think, and there's huge implications to that, and that the board was lied to.  AGI will require the largest moat in history, through regulation, lock-in, network economics and massive data centers.  GPT-5 might be the the first AGI.  The open version might even get therr first.  In which case they'll want to ban it.  I predict this time next year we will see the first signs of AGI. 
 What do you mean the open version 
 saw an article about his sister claiming similar accounts and its a bit disturbing  
 The guy is clearly a psychopath and probably a pedophile, look at his face. 
 That’s deciding a lot based on his face. What’s phrenology but for faces? 
 A moins que vous soyez l'excellent Professeur Michael Kosinski, je crains que vous soyez juste dans le jugement ou tout autre sphère plein de préjugés préjudiciabled qui hélas limitent notre relation à l'autre . Pensez -y  🗽💜🕊️ 
 Are you a bot? 
 Non pas du tout demander à @The: Daniel⚡️ c'est juste mon profil qui a dû rencontrer des soucis lorsqu'il fallait passer par Github. Compte de l'historique des messages je ne souhaite pas perdre j'ai recréé un bon profil aisément avec getalby et me reste la partie technique qui bloque afin que je puisse participer aux zaps . Bonne journée. 
Quant à remarque c'est juste en rapport avec ma profession.. recadrage en PNL . Restons l'esprit ouvert  
 I think it's also based on the fact that he is so powerful and successful among the big corporations-government conglomerates.

Obviously I can't know these things for sure, but I am a big believer in this "phrenology for faces" thing. Things people do and think directly affect how their faces look. 
 Pas forcément l'erreur que font la plupart du temps des confrères. D'où un besoin d'ouvrir l'esprit ouvert et un autonettoyage pour chaqu'indivfdu . Je vous recommande de voir sur Youtube un excellent documentaire avec Kosinski et Jürgen Schlumberger notamment sur l'IA la psychiatre physio, interprétation, nos tabous lingustiques. Bonne journée à bientôt sur d'autres thématiques de ce genre concernant l'jumain  
 Hours after saying this I saw a post from Sam Altman's sister claiming that he has sexually abused her since when she was 4 and him 13. This is not definitive proof of anything but it tells us something about the guy. 
 physiognomy 
 Senior people are resigning from OpenAI. If that were true would they quit the company?

Another explanation is a fallout between Ilya and Sam about product readiness and safety:
https://x.com/andercot/status/1725679858939003349

It seems MS and the other investors didn’t have any pre-knowledge of the firing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/17/openai-investors-blindsided-by-sam-altmans-firing/

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/0c0f182d1d3950bdb3d2793157fe45616a0828669312b857dc88d204d00df512.webp