It seems like a strategy by investors or even large tech companies to create a self-fulfilling prophecy to create a coalition of OpenAI employees, when there previously was none.
How is this more likely than the alternative, which is simply that this is an already-existing coalition that supports Sam Altman as CEO? Considering that he was CEO until he was suddenly removed yesterday, it would be surprising if most employees and investors didn’t support him. Unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re claiming here?
Note that another way of phrasing the poll is:
I bet the poll results would be very different if it was phrased this way.