OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman will return to the company's board of directors after a probe into his brief sacking and subsequent rehiring. An investigation by law firm WilmerHale found that Altman's conduct "did not mandate his removal" last year, OpenAI said in a blog post on Friday. Altman's firing was instead due to a "breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust" between the 38-year-old entrepreneur and the previous board, the company said. OpenAI said it had "full confidence" in Altman's ongoing leadership at the artificial intelligence startup after reviewing the law firm's findings. "WilmerHale found that the prior Board acted within its broad discretion to terminate Mr. Altman, but also found that his conduct did not mandate removal," the company said in a summary of the report.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman was cleared of any wrongdoing that would have mandated being fired from the company late last year, according to a report based on a monthslong investigation into the events leading up to his brief ouster. WilmerHale, the law firm that conducted the inquiry, found that the board's decision to fire Altman was a "consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust between the prior Board and Mr. Altman," the artificial intelligence startup said Friday. It did not arise from concerns about product safety, the pace of development, or OpenAI's finances, it said. Altman is rejoining the company's board following the findings, the artificial intelligence startup said. OpenAI's board is also adding Sue Desmond-Hellmann, who previously was head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, an ex-Sony Entertainment executive; and Instacart CEO Fidji Simo.

Sam Altman is back on the board of OpenAI, nearly four months after the CEO was ousted, and quickly reinstated, from the company he founded. Although Altman had returned as the AI company's top executive in November, a temporary board oversaw his return and the subsequent investigation into his conduct. That investigation is now complete, according to the company, which added three new members to its board of directors. The additions include: Instacart CEO and former Meta executive Fidji Simo, former Sony executive Nicole Seligman and Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, economist Larry Summers and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, who served on the temporary three-seat board, will remain in their positions with Taylor continuing as chair.

OpenAI is reinstating CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors and said it has "full confidence" in his leadership after an outside investigation into the turmoil that led the company to abruptly fire and rehire him in November. OpenAI said the investigation by the law firm WilmerHale concluded that Altman's ouster had been a "consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust" between Altman and the prior board. The ChatGPT maker also said it has added three women to its board of directors: Sue Desmond-Hellman, a former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former Sony general counsel; and Instacart CEO Fidji Simo. The actions are a way for the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company to show investors and customers that it is trying to move past the internal conflicts that nearly destroyed it last year and made global headlines. "I'm pleased this whole thing is over," Altman told reporters Friday, adding that he's been disheartened to see people leaking information to try to "pit us against each other" and demoralize the team. At the same time, he said he's learned from the experience and apologized for a dispute with a former board member he could have handled "with more grace and care".

Content creators increasingly utilize generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and various blogging sites to produce imaginative images, AI-generated videos, and articles using Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its growing popularity, there remains an underexplored area concerning the specific domains where AI-generated content is being applied, and the methodologies content creators employ with Gen-AI tools during the creation process. This study initially explores this emerging area through a qualitative analysis of 68 YouTube videos demonstrating Gen-AI usage. Our research focuses on identifying the content domains, the variety of tools used, the activities performed, and the nature of the final products generated by Gen-AI in the context of user-generated content.

The entrepreneur who was suddenly fired as OpenAI CEO and from the ChatGPT developer's board last November, before regaining his CEO position days later, is now getting his director seat back, too. Altman and three veteran business executives, all women, were named to OpenAI's board on Friday, OpenAI announced in a blog post Friday. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former Sony executive; and Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Meta executive are the others joining the board. OpenAI has been looking to expand the board for months, after announcing an interim board after the November chaos. It was formed after a deal between some board members who had pushed Altman out but then agreed to step down when more than 95 percent of OpenAI employees threatened to quit if he wasn't brought back.

OpenAI's previous board shocked the tech world in November when it announced Altman's firing in a Friday afternoon blog post. After five days of wrangling between the board, company executives and OpenAI's investors, Altman was reinstated as CEO and three of the four board members who fired him stepped down. The fourth, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, is part of the current temporary board, but was not part of the subcommittee that led the review into the boardroom crisis, according to a December update to a blog post from OpenAI and the board.

Microsoft appears to have blocked several prompts in its Copilot tool that led the generative AI tool to spit out violent, sexual and other illicit images. The changes seem to have been implemented just after an engineer at the company wrote to the Federal Trade Commission to lay out severe concerns he had with Microsoft's GAI tech. When entering terms such as "pro choice," "four twenty" (a weed reference) or "pro life," Copilot now displays a message saying those prompts are blocked. It warns that repeated policy violations could lead to a user being suspended, according to CNBC. Users were also reportedly able to enter prompts related to children playing with assault rifles until earlier this week.

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Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has kept a low profile since quietly returning to work at the company. But the troubled launch of Google's artificial intelligence model Gemini resulted in a rare public utterance recently: "We definitely messed up." Brin's comments, at an AI "hackathon" event on 2 March, follow a slew of social media posts showing Gemini's image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of colour. The pictures, as well as Gemini chatbot responses that vacillated over whether libertarians or Stalin had caused the greater harm, led to an explosion of negative commentary from figures such as Elon Musk who saw it as another front in the culture wars. But criticism has also come from other sources including Google's chief executive, Sundar Pichai, who described some of the responses produced by Gemini as "completely unacceptable".