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[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] kromem@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It's worth keeping in mind the explicit mention of their key responsibility at the end, which was the original non-profit charter of "ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whatever it was it's spicy enough that they're trying to bury the press release in the late Friday afternoon news graveyard

Edit: even better, whatever they're trying to distance themselves from is so important they didn't even wait for the closing bell on the market.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I interpret their wording that he lied to the board repeadetly and made some unethical backdoor deals of evil.

[–] SaltySalamander@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

More likely he didn't want to be evil and all the board cares about is money

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Almost certainly the opposite - it's the board that is non-profit and Sam has been the one bringing billions of dollars of commercially-tied investment

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if he wanted to put ethical guardrails on the product that would’ve been less profitable for the board.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's the non-profit board, not an investor board. None of the members have equity in the company.

[–] Tillyface89@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah I'm going with the board doesn't like the commercially tied investment deals from other companies.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’ve worked with some non-profits… that are greedier than for-profits. The board just kinda… y’know…. Money.

…tax-free tho

Quick edit: donations make hella money and old people love to leave mills hahahaha

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unverified, but I saw some rumor about sexual abuse in his past. Look it up.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Those allegations have been floating since ~2021, I have a hard time believing they'd take emergency action on them 2-3y later.