So OpenAI is not a believer in recursive self-improvement after all?

Bubble bursting behavior in action - AI company that pushes everyone to use AI, replace everything and everyone with AI, fires people for using AI to make the AI.

The more you think about it, the worse it gets.

Makes sense, they are buying distillation of human brains not their own weights.

Typically, for AI training, you need human feedback. If AI were enough, then OpenAI would do it themselves. Though we all know how bad AI slop is, running it in a loop can lead to unreadable sentences.

They hired contractors with the condition to provide human feedback without AI; those people broke the rules, so their contracts ended prematurely.

This is more a failure of journalistic understanding than poor lab behavior.