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The way Sam Altman bungled the Pentagon deal by swooping in a few hours after Anthropic was fired should be grounds for OpenAI finding another CEO.

fiatpandas 6mo ago
Nytimes reported that DoW prepped that deal in the background in parallel, as backup for issues with Anthopic. But I agree, optics are terrible.
mirsadm 6mo ago
Why? Give it a couple weeks and everybody will forget about this. They'll be earning more money than previously. Job well done.
- dgroshev 6mo ago
  Just like everyone forgot about this https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...
  - wongarsu 6mo ago
    Employees are the ones with the real power to make this hurt. The customers switching over are easily offset by the DoD contract. But losing talent over this, and having a harder time to attract future talent? That could hurt them Sam probably expects to solve this by just offering more money. It worked in the past
    - integralid 6mo ago
      Yeah, they will have to raise salary by 10% to attract people. This will no doubt hurt their bottom line. Poor starving SV text workers will have no choice but to accept working for them, lest they starve. Maybe my sarcasm is not justified, but I don't think most people care that that work for a company that does unethical things. In fact I think all large companies are more or less immoral (or rather amoral) - that's just how the system is built.
    - trollbridge 6mo ago
      Given the mass layoffs happening, I don’t think hiring talent is as hard as it’s made out to be.
  - PunchyHamster 6mo ago
    Traitors to humanity
bigyabai 6mo ago
What, you think the DoD can only designate one supply chain risk at a time?
micromacrofoot 6mo ago
it started before that, the openai president donated 20mil to trump the month prior... ellision and kushners also pretty heavily involved with openai and altman is tight with peter thiel the whole public debacle was planned, the tos isn't stopping the pentagon from doing anything (as we seen with openai now)
tim333 6mo ago
Swooping in a few hours before Anthropic was fired... Yeah bad look.

fiatpandas 6mo ago

Nytimes reported that DoW prepped that deal in the background in parallel, as backup for issues with Anthopic. But I agree, optics are terrible.

mirsadm 6mo ago

Why? Give it a couple weeks and everybody will forget about this. They'll be earning more money than previously. Job well done.

dgroshev 6mo ago
Just like everyone forgot about this https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...
- wongarsu 6mo ago
  Employees are the ones with the real power to make this hurt. The customers switching over are easily offset by the DoD contract. But losing talent over this, and having a harder time to attract future talent? That could hurt them Sam probably expects to solve this by just offering more money. It worked in the past
  - integralid 6mo ago
    Yeah, they will have to raise salary by 10% to attract people. This will no doubt hurt their bottom line. Poor starving SV text workers will have no choice but to accept working for them, lest they starve. Maybe my sarcasm is not justified, but I don't think most people care that that work for a company that does unethical things. In fact I think all large companies are more or less immoral (or rather amoral) - that's just how the system is built.
  - trollbridge 6mo ago
    Given the mass layoffs happening, I don’t think hiring talent is as hard as it’s made out to be.
- PunchyHamster 6mo ago
  Traitors to humanity

bigyabai 6mo ago

What, you think the DoD can only designate one supply chain risk at a time?

micromacrofoot 6mo ago

it started before that, the openai president donated 20mil to trump the month prior... ellision and kushners also pretty heavily involved with openai and altman is tight with peter thiel the whole public debacle was planned, the tos isn't stopping the pentagon from doing anything (as we seen with openai now)

tim333 6mo ago

Swooping in a few hours before Anthropic was fired... Yeah bad look.