-----> WHY DID THEY DO IT? <------
SERIOUSLY! They all just decided to wake up that day and say let's go fire Sam and blow up the company because "lack of candor" that they can't even give details on?? These are serious people doing serious stuff. These are not idiots. What the heck is going on? Can anyone explain?
A) DeAngelo getting revenge for custom GPTs killing his company Poe's core product.
B) The board discovering Sam working to use OpenAI resources/IP to further his own personal business/political goals.
Does it?
If it was exactly that but he misjudged the external response and resulting consequences, that would also be a reason for regret.
They shouldn't be. But short of temporary insanity I'm running out of ideas on what it could be.
Happens a lot. I know some on the very extreme outskirts of the left wing who look at the "splitters!" scene in Life of Brian and see themselves; I've seen it in arguments over programming language features; there's plenty of religious disputes that look like this from the outside; most of the Brexit arguments painted everyone who didn't agree with the speaker as being part of Team Other and merely an attempt to undermine Team Us; and so on.
People can get very seriously angry about things that seem totally pointless from the outside.