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Independent reporting attributes Altman's November 2023 removal to a breakdown in communication, not to fear of the later-named Strawberry project; it does not support the claimed causal explanation. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 11542

Source: Inside Sam Altman’s Shock Ouster From OpenAI · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:e58019c88377e04ec3551ca19d3376b27088bb2e11dc6a9e387a668b7f9d0fbf

The board didn’t specify any dishonesty and OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap later said in a memo to employees that it was not accusing Altman of malfeasance, chalking his removal up not to a debate over safety, but a “breakdown in communication.”