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The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI (www.newyorker.com)

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Grab your favourite beverage; this is a long piece, but it provides a fair amount of insight on the pre-Thanksgiving imbroglio.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If the board refused to do either, the Microsoft executives would move to Plan B: using their company’s considerable leverage—including the billions of dollars it had pledged to OpenAI but had not yet handed over—to help get Altman reappointed as C.E.O., and to reconfigure OpenAI’s governance by replacing board members. Someone close to this conversation told me, “From our perspective, things had been working great, and OpenAI’s board had done something erratic, so we thought, ‘Let’s put some adults in charge and get back to what we had.’ ”

And you're about to trust copilot with your info after them openly saying "we can do whatever the fuck we want" 😂?