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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired for outright lying, says former board member

Helen Toner also revealed the board found out ChatGPT had been released via social media.

Earlier this week, Toner and fellow former board member Tasha McCauley published an op-ed in The Economist stating that they decided to eject Altman due to "long-standing patterns of behavior." Toner has now provided examples of said behaviour in her talk with Sidhu — including the claim that OpenAI's own board weren't told when ChatGPT was released, only finding out via social media. Pointing to reports that Altman was fired from his previous role at Y Combinator due to his alleged self-interested behaviour, Toner claimed that OpenAI was far from the only company to have the same problems with him.

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