

At this point, my assumption whenever I see heavy handed RTO orders like this, is that you’re seeing disguised layoffs.
Don’t want to spook the stock market, but still “need” to cut people to show profit “growth” this quarter? Just be such a massive ass to your employees that a ton of them quit. It’s that easy.
Honestly, I’m a bit relieved that OpenAI is at least trying to intervene here. When I heard they backtracked and re-released 4o, alarm bells went off for me that they were going to give in and just rake in profit off this type of dangerous AI addiction. Sounds like at least some of that original non-profit “managing the future of AI” concern is still there, if obviously far less than I’d like.