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by moonsu 940 days ago
> The truth is before this Sam was basically running circles around the board and doing whatever he wanted on the profit side- that's what was pissing them off so much in the first place. He was even trying to depose board members who were openly critical of open AI's practices.

Do you have a source for this?

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New York Times. He was "reprimanding" Toner, a board member, for writing an article critical of open AI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...

Getting his way: The Wall Street Journal article. They said he usually got his way, but that he was so skillful at it that they were hard-pressed to explain exactly how he managed to pull it off.

https://archive.is/20231122033417/https://www.wsj.com/tech/a...

Bottom line he had a lot more power over the board then than he will now.