[labrador]

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.

[micromacrofoot]

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)

[bigyabai]

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

[tim333]

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

[fiatpandas]

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]

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

[dgroshev]

Just like everyone forgot about this https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...

[wongarsu]

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]

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]

Given the mass layoffs happening, I don’t think hiring talent is as hard as it’s made out to be.

[PunchyHamster]

Traitors to humanity