Some anonymous dissenting views I've come across from OpenAI employees:<p>- <a href="https://www.teamblind.com/post/OpenAI-employees-did-you-sign-the-petition-out-of-fear-OU4uvcyt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.teamblind.com/post/OpenAI-employees-did-you-sign...</a><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Anxious_Bandicoot126" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/user/Anxious_Bandicoot126</a>
95+% of the company disagrees as made obvious by publicly signing with their own real names documents saying that they'll quit unless Sam returns. I don't see much evidence this "OpenAI" message actually represents the views of people at OpenAI; it may not have even been written by employees.
Dirty laundry is dirty.<p>There's no way the current episode doesn't damage reputation of everyone involved. On the flip side, there's nothing more revealing about powerful people in just how they defend (or attack) other powerful people, while useful idiots scurry around.<p><i>We</i> are those useful idiots.
permanent (and verifiable) mirror:<p><a href="https://static.space/sha2-256:a53e64b47b45972c3086e0300a8bb0b4c3ece36876861850fb68a48d92c9a870" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://static.space/sha2-256:a53e64b47b45972c3086e0300a8bb0...</a><p>(including its digest in the URL -- even if the content is moved elsewhere, we can know for sure whether it was modified)
I have issues with language like <i>”…As you have now witnessed what happens when you dare stand up to Sam Altman.”</i><p>This is worded like they are following a messiah and anything said after that is now tainted with worship speak. I get that they have concerns but this isn’t the way.
I don’t think an unnamed and unspecified group of employees should get to have a loud voice in this conversation.<p>This isn’t to say it’s not fair to criticize Sam and Greg but none of these sound like issues that would lead to them being fired.
If they strongly believe in what they're saying, they should come forward. If you hide behind an pseudonym, credibility takes a big hit. It's not like we're under a dictatorship and they're going to disappear if they do so.<p>You have almost every single employee vouching for Sam, people outside the company vouching for him, an anon letter is paper thin as far credibility goes.<p>And ofc, any employee that got pushed out is going to have an axe to grind. Losing out on 900k+/year has to sting. At that compensation and in a startup, performance, disagreeing and comitting are key to the success of the venture. You should expect attrition to be high (though how did author of the letter get to 50%? who knows)<p>The board is hiding, one of which has a direct competitor to a recently launched product so obv. conflict of interest, the employees are calling bs, Ilya himself turned, etc. This is just stupid.<p>Some others have put this perfectly, given what has transpired so far, how do they expect to align an agi? You'd expect resignations based on that alone.
Sounds like a bunch of complaining from the usual cadre of difficult employees we all wish would just be gotten rid of sooner. There's always a few.