Was Sam Altman's firing related to the pause in ChatGPT Plus sign-ups?
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Will resolve "yes" if whatever caused OpenAI to do https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23962003/openai-pumps-the-breaks-on-chatgpt-plus-signups is the same thing that ultimately caused them to fire Sam (ex: accounting scandal)

Will resolve "no" if some other cause is publicly confirmed/accepted

Will resolve N/A if no cause is generally accepted by end of the year, or if the Trustworthy-ish folks find it too close to call

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I was able to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus again, and I haven’t seen the freeze mentioned in any of the “firing” leaks/stories from this weekend.

I’ll go ahead and close this as NO at some point this week unless this pops up in a story or someone makes a convincing case for leaving it open longer.

“Ultimately caused” is a much stronger condition than “related to”. Like it could be a secondary cause, or a proximal cause, which seems much more likely given that they’ve already technically given a reason - lying, making this market much less useful than it otherwise would be

@bec yeah good point - I think this question (and most other like it) are trying to get at what's behind the "technically given reason"

if it helps, presuming https://nitter.net/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028#m is correct about the cause for the firing, it seems like the only way this resolves "yes" is if the freeze was also caused by advocacy from the "nonprofit adherents" instead of true capacity limitations

@AndyMartin if that report ends up being incorrect, then .... it's harder to say. I'm guessing things become public pretty quickly (over the next few days), but if it's ambiguous or still unconfirmed by EOY, I'll close N/A