watching Twitter lose all its big-name advertisers on the same day that the "AI" guy gets shitcanned, may I just say, and I say this as a hater:
lol. lmao. lmfao. rofl.
I don't actually know anything about OpenAI's internal whatevers, but my personal spread on the reasons for Sam Altman's firing are:
0.5% horrific allegations of sexual abuse
0.0% he was Too Close to discovering the Basilisk
0.0% he was the only one stopping them from releasing the Basilisk
99.5% oops where did all the money go
Seems extremely likely to me. A data center holding what is supposedly the collected works of human creativity that it is then supposed to synthesize from can't be cheap to run, and even if you get Adobe, Twitter, who-the-fuck-ever on board to pay you for the service, I genuinely don't believe it's any cheaper than just hiring a few guys, and it's probably less prone to obvious error compared to the various AI chat stuff.
