A group of senior employees at OpenAI complained to the company’s former board of directors that CEO Sam Altman was “psychologically abusive” — and the allegations contributed to the shocking decision to fire him, according to a report Friday.
Some OpenAI employees reportedly told the board that they “feared retaliation from Altman.”
In one case, Altman had allegedly become “hostile” after an employee “shared critical feedback” with him.
Aside from the staff complaints, the sources said OpenAI’s board felt that Altman lied to them as part of an effort to oust Helen Toner, a board member and academic focused on AI safety.
Altman reportedly soured on Toner after she contributed to a paper that criticized OpenAI for pushing out ChatGPT, arguing the move accelerated the AI race at the expense of safety.
I’m shocked, shocked, I say, that the man who *checks notes… used his ousting to garner sympathy and oust the people trying to oust him for having abusive tendencies. Classic DARVO. He’s really the victim, guys. Also I’m shocked that a giant corporation like Microsoft would choose a toxic asshole for leadership over quality people for leadership.
Okay, I’m not that shocked.
CEO types tend to be more sociopathic than the rest of us.
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for me the point is that none of them are particularly stable geniuses
Yes. I checked his CV, or maybe it was his short-lived replacement. It looked like people just become CEOs of companies after companies although they are not the experts of the exact technology the companies use.
They are experts on being the CEO. I kinda understand it’s a skill, but if companies are fashion items to these boys as such a CV make them look, it’s depressing.
Hey, Lemmy, remember how you sucked this guy’s dick because a bunch of Microsoft simps sent a letter talking about their strong market position, as a non-profit, while the board that fired him was talking about their responsibility to humanity?
And the other founder was runing a cult in the office. You wonder why there are any employees left there at all.
was it a sex cult? I might stay for a sex cult
Not when you see the type of people who join a sex cult.
They ain’t as pretty as your imagining
You don’t get to be a CEO without being at the very least a sociopath.
Name a CEO that isn’t abusive.
I don’t think I can name 5 current CEOs. Nor do I have knowledge of their business tactics.
In other words, he’s a CEO.
I suppose it’s nice that the Internet switches CEO whipping boys ever once in a while to keep things fresh, but it’s still really tiresome once you’ve been around long enough to see the pattern. I remember when it was Bill Gates who was the corporate IT devil. Been a lot of new occupants of that title since then.
