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OpenAI has just announced to developers that the store that wants to share the revenue for everyone will not be able to go online this year!
That's right, the GPTS store will be postponed until the beginning of next year to meet everyone.
And this decision was forced - everything is closely related to the openAI infighting that is still in front of us.
As the ChatGPT team said in an open letter to GPT developers:
Although we originally planned to release the GPTS store this month, it ......Something unexpected keeps us busy!
And now, this "unexpected thing" (that is, OpenAI's 5-day palace fighting drama) has been dug up by "The New Yorker" to dig out more details.
Two of them are particularly noteworthy:
1. Ultraman himself did not act sincerely in internal communication. He once wanted to use language to divide the board and make members suspicious of each other.
2. All kinds of dramas after the board of directors fired Ultraman: from Mira's brief ascension to the CEO, to the resignation of 700 real-name ** people from the board of directors, to the ...... that Ultraman and Brockman once agreed to join Microsoft and lead the new AI research roomA series of contingency measures were led by Microsoft (unexpectedly).
With these two points, the fire of raging gossip can no longer be suppressed, so that GPTS stores have to cancel the appointment, what happened in OpenAI's 5 days of strife? !
More details on infighting**.
Everyone knows the story of OpenAI's infighting, and the whole world is staring at them and vigorously staging a "True Legend" of Ultraman Niu Hulu.
Interestingly, this five-day infighting drama is known internally as "turkey-shoot cluster***, which we translate as "a big scuffle with a mess of results".
And the protagonist of the melee center, Altman Sam, was fired in large part because of the board's positioning of him:
an unnervingly slippery operator".
The board didn't make it out of nowhere, and they gave a few examples.
Evidence one, and the freshest example:
This fall, Helen Toner, a former member of OpenAI's board of directors (the same director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies at Georgetown University), co-wrote an article called "Decoding Intentions: Artificial Intelligence and Costly Signals," which implicitly criticized OpenAI for "fanning the flames of AI hype."
After the article was published, Altman began to talk privately with the other members of the board of directors at the time to discuss the replacement of Helen - Helen defended himself afterwards, not expecting a draft to stir up such a big wave in the circle.
However, as several board members exchanged views on the content of the conversation, it was discovered that Altman seemed to (unknowingly or accidentally) misrepresent their thoughts by saying that they were all in favor of removing Helen.
He used lies to sow discord among board members," revealed a person familiar with board discussions, "and this has happened a lot over the past few years." ”
Of course, there are also people familiar with the matter who said that Altman's attempt to make Helen** a little clumsy, "but he did not try to manipulate the board."
However, the end result is that Ultraman's attempt to drive Helen away is not successful.
There are 6 members of the original board of directors of OpenAI.
Looking further back, in 2018, he successfully blocked early board member Elon Musk's impulsive offer to buy OpenAI, preventing OpenAI from rushing prematurely to the commercialization highway.
But after that, Ultraman took on the responsibility of "making money" for OpenAI himself.
Board members believe that OpenAI's mission requires them to be wary of AI being too dangerous, but that they can't fulfill that role if Ultraman is still around.
While some said they knew that Altman and the board had a "very normal and healthy board debate," some board members were intimidated by their responsibility to ensure that AI benefits all of humanity.
So, when it came time to fire the man who had "the ability to control information and manipulate perceptions", the other four members of the board of directors at the time, namely Ilya, Helen, Tasha McCaule, and Adam D'Angelo, began to discuss the expulsion of Ultraman, the main focus was a surprise.
Microsoft is making three urgent moves.
However, when the old board of directors removed Ultraman, it was only a notice that Microsoft was not involved.
First, to prevent Nadella from snitching on Ultraman, after all, he helped the platform a few days ago, and the relationship between them is quite good.
But secondly, according to the news, they believed at the time: Microsoft should understand and support their decision!
Why do you understand it this way?
Because the board of directors at that time looked at a series of initiatives by Microsoft, such as the rapid and rash entry into artificial intelligence, but also the importance of the security ethics of AI technology.
In May, Natasha Cramptton, Microsoft's chief responsible AI officer, said that "responsible AI would be integrated into the entire company." In other words, don't go before the whole AI team.
Each core business unit will have a senior level to drive responsible AI, and a network of people will be built to enable more frequent and direct communication.
This shows that Microsoft still has a spectrum of risks brought by AI, and is consistent with their concepts.
But Microsoft, on its side, finally had the opportunity to bring down Google by cooperating with OpenAI, and naturally didn't want any major changes to happen.
At that time, Microsoft was shocked when the news came out, and the decision was simply "unbelievably stupid".
To this end, Microsoft executives hurriedly and urgently formulated three plans:
The first is to support CTO Mira to stabilize the situation and see if the board can change its mind. The second is to personally exert pressure as the largest investor to help Ultraman return to the position of CEO. The third is to hire Altman and people with the same vision to rebuild at Microsoft. The end result was also seen, the first plan was useless;In the second plan, OpenAI employees, led by Mira, began to urge all board members to resign, with Microsoft's support.
And the third plan, which is also the official announcement that everyone has seen, Nadella invited Altman and Brockman to lead a new AI research lab within Microsoft.
Now, Microsoft has gotten its wish, not only returning Altman to the CEO, but also gaining a board seat of its own.
Although he is only an observer without voting rights, at least he will not be so passive when he faces any big decisions of OpenAI in the future.
GPTS stores postponed until next year.
And on OpenAI's side, the effects of the infighting continue—
It really slowed down the progress of product development.
Just today, many users and developers have received such an email.
The GPT store has been delayed until next year, and GPTS can only be shared directly via a link for now
What unexpected things are self-explanatory.
First, the OpenAI infighting incident affected the progress of product research and developmentSecond, they said that they also received a lot of feedback and needed more improvements and optimizations.
For example, previously**gpts only needed two prompts, and all the data files and prompts behind the dred** could be retrieved.
However, it was three weeks ago ... Sure enough, the infighting slowed down the progress).
At present, OpenAI has paid attention to this problem, turned off the File Can function by default, and added an information prompt to remind users.
In addition, the configuration interface has been updated, one-click testing and debugging information has been introduced in the preview mode, multiple domain names are supported, and much more.
Finally, OpenAI also said that it will make some other major updates to ChatGPT. Thank you all for your time and effort in building GPTS.
But judging by everyone's reaction, it seems that there is a lot of dissatisfaction with the use of GPTS:
Okay, are there any friends who have used GPTS in depth?
If you have any complaints or more experiences, please share them with us.
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