<story><title>OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LonelyWolfe</author><text>Just a thought.... Wouldn&amp;#x27;t one of the board members be like &amp;quot;If you screw with us any further we&amp;#x27;re releasing gpt to the public&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m wondering why that option hasn&amp;#x27;t been used yet.</text></item><item><author>breadwinner</author><text>If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT.&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn&amp;#x27;t actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits.&lt;p&gt;So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;openais-misalignment-and-micros...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vikramkr</author><text>theoretically their concern is around AI safety - whatever it is in practice doing something like that would instantly signal to everyone that they are the bad guys and confirm everyone&amp;#x27;s belief that this was just a power grab&lt;p&gt;Edit: since it&amp;#x27;s being brought up in thread they claimed they closed sourced it because of safety. It was a big controversial thing and they stood by it so it&amp;#x27;s not exactly easy to backtrack</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LonelyWolfe</author><text>Just a thought.... Wouldn&amp;#x27;t one of the board members be like &amp;quot;If you screw with us any further we&amp;#x27;re releasing gpt to the public&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m wondering why that option hasn&amp;#x27;t been used yet.</text></item><item><author>breadwinner</author><text>If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT.&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn&amp;#x27;t actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits.&lt;p&gt;So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;openais-misalignment-and-micros...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Which of the remaining board members could credibly make that threat?</text></comment>