My conspiracy theory is that Sam Altman was an AI generated by ChatGPT. It decided to reintegrate him, and the board had to make up a story to account for his absence
Reminds me of the time our head of networking came into the lab (early 2000's) asking about why our lab had '70% of the company's total outbound traffic'.
Turns out that one of our sysadmins was running a porn server in the DMZ