And then later on when one of them openly said Altman lied constantly and had all kinds of unethical financial conflicts of interests? good times

Former OpenAI board member reveals why Sam Altman was fired in bombshell interview—‘we learned about ChatGPT on Twitter’

"We just couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us," Toner said.

helen toner is an unequivocally awful human being, a prominent "effective altruism" cultist with clear links to eugenicists like Nick Bostrom, and she is absolutely not someone that you should be lionizing. the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend in this instance

anyway, totally no alarm bells here, please keep pouring all your money into this unprofitable, unsustainable, electricity and water gobbling plagiarism machine run by a fabulism prone toddler

"Whether those in charge of maximizing financial results are best entrusted with implementing guardrails that may prove a commercial hindrance remains to be seen." Nah, pretty sure we've already found the result of that one multiple times.

I think this is a case where the things these people believed (be cool about AI now so an omniscient AI doesn't torture us for a billion years) were broadly deranged, but their judgement about Altman being dishonest was correct