Analyst: Criticism of OpenAI firings conflates pretext claims with speculation
panickssery · x · 2026-10-09
Responding to Kelsey Tuoc, panickssery argues people are blowing off steam at OpenAI by combining the plausible idea that the stated reasons were pretextual with very specific theories about the real reasons, when many possibilities exist. He separates two questions: was the justification pretextual, and was the actual justification unreasonable — noting it can be fine to fire employees likely to leak in the future.
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