The board has backed down after Altman rallied staff into a mass exodus.
How would that be bad if you were trying to shut it down? [On edit: how would the exodus be bad, not how would backing down be bad]
Especially because the people most likely to quit would be the ones driving the risky behavior?
The big problem would seem to be that they might (probably would/will) go off and recreate the danger elsewhere, but that’s probably not avoidable anyway. If you don’t act, they’ll continue to do it under your roof. If you force them to go set up elsewhere, then at least you’ve slowed them down a bit.
And you might even be able to use the optics of the whole mess to improve the “you can do whatever you want as long as you’re big enough” regulatory framework that seems to have been being put into place, partly under OpenAI’s own influence. Probably not, but at least you can cause policymakers to perceive chaos and dissent, and perhaps think twice about whether it’s a good idea to give the chaotic organizations a lot of rope.
How would that be bad if you were trying to shut it down? [On edit: how would the exodus be bad, not how would backing down be bad]
Especially because the people most likely to quit would be the ones driving the risky behavior?
The big problem would seem to be that they might (probably would/will) go off and recreate the danger elsewhere, but that’s probably not avoidable anyway. If you don’t act, they’ll continue to do it under your roof. If you force them to go set up elsewhere, then at least you’ve slowed them down a bit.
And you might even be able to use the optics of the whole mess to improve the “you can do whatever you want as long as you’re big enough” regulatory framework that seems to have been being put into place, partly under OpenAI’s own influence. Probably not, but at least you can cause policymakers to perceive chaos and dissent, and perhaps think twice about whether it’s a good idea to give the chaotic organizations a lot of rope.