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Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike leave OpenAI (twitter.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Ilya tweet:

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the excellent research leadership of @merettm. It was an honor and a privilege to have worked together, and I will miss everyone dearly. So long, and thanks for everything. I am excited for what comes next — a project that is very personally meaningful to me about which I will share details in due time.

Jan tweet:

I resigned

this comes precisely 6mo after Sam Altman's job at OpenAI was rescued by the Paperclip Maximiser. NYT: "Dr. Sutskever remained an OpenAI employee, but he never returned to work." lol

orange site discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128

lesswrong discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JSWF2ZLt6YahyAauE/ilya-sutskever-and-jan-leike-resign-from-openai

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago

The HN thread quickly devolves into 'tech is great' and 'this is the next revolution', and im again amazed at our collective inability to learn things. Even if LLM does great things, redesigning all your workflows/etc around a company which you could and will change the cost and terms of service on a whim is a bad idea. Even more so in the era where there is no more almost zero money lending. Good luck when the LLM shit enshittifies so much that you will need to divest from it and all your programmers can't code without it (and stackexchange is also gone).