OpenAI board learnt about ChatGPT from Twitter, former member says: Sam Altman ‘toxic’

OpenAI’s board came to know about the existence of ChatGPT when they saw it on Twitter, a former board member claimed in an interview. Helen Toner provided her first detailed account of the backstory behind the dramatic firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman last November claiming that he created a “toxic atmosphere” at the company.