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Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member, said on The TED AI Show (28 May 2024) that for years Altman made it difficult for the board to do its job by withholding information, misrepresenting things and, in some cases, outright lying to the board, and that the board learned about ChatGPT on Twitter.

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But for years, Sam had made it really difficult for the board to actually do that job by, you know, withholding information. Misrepresenting things that were happening at the company, in some cases outright lying to the board. ... We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter.

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What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner (transcript)
The TED AI Show, TED · 2024-05-28

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