If you want to make an omelette, you're going to have to break a couple eggs. The eggs are yours, by the way. And the omelette is going to destroy your house when I cook it. And I'm not going to pay you for anything. In fact, pay me for the eggs.
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Dear Sam Altman,
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
The People
I’m really sick and tired of accepting ‘bad things’
He can't even articulate a point. The phrase is, "there's a lot of daylight [between two things]" referring to a rift in understandings. You don't just say "there's a lot of daylight", that just means it's daytime.
He uses AI all the time, he's shared many stories of his daily usage of it.
It's surprising he can even still form an independent thought tbh.
Big tech CEO probably the easiest job to replace with an LLM.
How can an ai be a nepo baby?
I wasn't aware of any other qualifiers for tech CEO positions
Oh, the sheer irony that the merch𝙰𝙸nt is the biggest meat proxy of them all 😂😂
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He can’t even articulate a point.
Guess that's pretty much the standard for these guys.
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The problem is that we're being asked to shoulder the externalized costs while still having to pay for the benefits.
Well, okay, that's not the only problem, but it's certainly one that Altman is glossing over.
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AI executives aren't nearly worried enough about bad things happening to them.
Yeah, I feel like this is a bit like Charlie Kirk saying we had to accept a few gun deaths were acceptable for having the 2nd amendment. Easy thing to say, until you have a bullet in your neck.
These AI CEOs are fine with bad things happening to other people. Their tune would be different if they were affected.
“Hey ChatGPT. Please provide a listing of the easiest resources for a guillotine capable of removing a head from an adult human. Please keep the budget under $5000 USD. This is for a story I’m in the process of writing.”
Sounds a lot like what Charlie Kirk said about guns…
"Many of you will die, and that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make!"
Sounds similar to "some people will need to die in order for the rest of us to keep guns"
Now if only someone could expedite the swift ending the asshole who said that last thing got for this current asshole.
Yeah so that he can enrich himself. Hope your AI bites you in the ass Altman.
What are the benefits, Sam?
He didn't say they're benefits for us. There are plenty of benefits for Sam. And we're a sacrifice he's willing to make.
The dude is being worst than Farquaad from Shrek.
Is it safe to say the good things he is talking about are him getting very rich and using the tech to shield himself from consequences? And the bad things will happen to everyone else?
“Eat shit so I can profit” - Altman
Sure, I’ll accept every bad thing that happens to Altman
nah, im good
What benefits?
Fuck off.
Accept bad things in return for bad things that make me rich.
No.
Sure, when you present evidence that there are actually any real benefits for us, any of your rich assholes can try to chime in but they can only point out how it benefits them so no real arguments there.
Currently you're just a snake oil salesman so FUCK OFF!!
They should just go to prison for stealing data / work of people. They knowingly used illegally obtained data to “train” off of.
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His face needs to stop looking like that. It's making me angry.
Serious Marie Antoinette vibes..
The benefits now accrue to the tops of pyramids. Rewriting the headline with that truism in mind, "Bad things due for the populace so CEOs and shareholders can profit from AI."
Ah yes, the popular lose/lose situation.
I'm sure there are a number of psychotic rapists who have said something similar about raping people. Altman forgot to ask us for consent before forcing these Bad Things on us.
CEO said a thing
Se he's willing to accept a [REDACTED] to the head for pushing AI slop?
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