But really, it's hard to take something like this seriously. It may be 100% legitimate, but most of the claims are nebulous at best. The sort of claims that unless you're intimately involved with day-to-day of the company, you're not going to understand. While us randoms on the internet are not the target audience, the Board is not involved in the day-to-day either. So the only logical target could be the current employees. Whom either don't know about these situations...or turned a blind eye to it.
By shining a light on what has (reportedly) happened again, what is accomplished? Those that didn't know still don't know for sure. Those whom ignored it the first time around are... what? Going to change sides? So they can be the one of the 15 people remaining at the company after everyone else defects to Microsoft?
The timing is also perplexing. If things were really this terrible, why wait until after Sam et al has been fired/left to make demands for an investigation? Realistically, these accusations, if true, are useless. The current employee base has already signed away that they are going to leave OpenAI if the Board doesn't backdown and undo everything they've already done. If the BOD were to take this seriously and wait for the results of an investigation, which would take months... the entire employee base would already be gone.
Maybe it's an attempt to put a hit out on Sam & Crew at Microsoft. But MS really wants that AI juice. Some anonymous hearsay on the internet is not going to change their mind. A lot of these accusations can also be filed under "start-up growing pains". So MS isn't going to do anything about this.
Net-Net, if these claims are true or false. It changes nothing for no one. The boulder of doom is already rolling towards OpenAI and the BOD.