It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

It's time to stop taking any CEO at their word.

Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.

he declares that the AI revolution is on the verge of unleashing boundless prosperity and radically improving human life

I think he means productivity will go up 240% and we'll get 8% raises to match, but we'll spend all of it getting nickel-and-dimed on 'premium human concierge' services whenever we get stuck talking in circles with support chatbots. This is the bad place. I bet in 10 years my insurance plan will no longer cover imaging being interpereted by a radiologist

He is a tech bro. Almost everything he is saying is a lie.

Yeah. It sucks I had to be downvoted into irrelevance way back when this clown was first becoming worshipped by the tech bros.

I don’t take pride in patting myself on the back, but I was fucking right all along about this douche.

When that major drama unfolded with him getting booted then re-hired. It was super fucking obvious that it was all about the money, the data, and the salesmanship He is nothing but a fucking tech-bro. Part Theranos, part Musk, part SBF, part (whatever that pharma asshat was), and all fucking douchebag.

AI is fucking snake oil and an excuse to scrape every bit of data like it's collecting every skin cell dropping off of you.

I never took him at his word.

Really? The guy behind the company called "Open" AI that has contributed the least to the open source AI communities, while constantly making grand claims and telling us we're not ready to see what he's got. We're supposed to stop taking that guys word?

Wow, thanks journalists, what would we do without you.

Was this not obvious at the very least when his own board kicked him to the curb due to an inability to trust him?

not only does he burn through cash, he burns through resources making life worse now for everybody: AI rivals crypto in resource waisting while not contributing at all to any improvements. I fail to see "brighter future" for us through AI as it is energy-intensive, unsustainable endeavor for which we are woefully unprepared both materially (energy efficiency, semiconductor manufacturing/recycling, etc) and psychologically (ethics etc.). Yeah, grand on paper, terrible in reality

I’m honestly stunned. If you can’t trust rich capitalists, who can you trust‽

Name a CEO tech bro that isn't a raving douche.

the techbros that think that with sufficiently advanced AI we could solve climate change are so stupid. like, we might not have a perfect solution, but we have ideas on how to start to make things better (less car-centric cities, less meat and animal products, more investment in public transport and solar), and it gets absolutely ignored. why would it be different when an AI gives the solution? unless they want the "eat fat-free food and you will be thin" solution to climate change, in which we change absolutely nothing of our current situation but it is magically ecological

Oh I'm streets ahead, I never took him at his word in the first place.

It's beyond time to stop believing and parroting that whatever would make your source the most money is literally true without verifying any of it.

I wonder what this clowns daily PR budget is?

Each one of these fake news stories are generally 15k a pop

Do you remember when crypto scammer Sam Bankman was running thousands daily for years...

Similar vibes here

News at 10! It was time to stop taking his word for everything. Quite a while back.

People did that? Lol

He’s the musk in making

The guy that was lying since day one? Why?

You shouldn't judge people on appearances.

... but, I mean, come OOON... he looks like a reanimated Madame Tussaud's sculpture. Like someone said, "Give me a Wish.com Mark Zuckerberg... but not so vivacious this time." And he's the CEO of an AI-related company.

I don't trust any of these types. If you haven't noticed by now morally decent people are never in charge of a any large organization. The type of personality suited to claw their way to the top usually lack any real moral compass that doesn't advance their pursuit of power.

Who is Sam Altman?

(This is a rethorical question)

The best time to stop taking Altman seriously was ten years ago.

The second best time is now.

I'll keep my open source generative models and will be happy to watch this bozo and his cultists and the artbros all eat shit all year-round.

The time was last year, but better late than sorry.

How do we not know that this isn't an AI generated Sam Altman?

Anyone have a non pay wall link?

Has people start making Sam Alternator's AI image doing incendiary stuff? Maybe we should start doing that.

I would like to be able to listen to someone who is at the top of their game since it's most likely them who know the most. If they are the CEO of a company about the thing, that would make sense. I've seen plenty of enthusiasts start their own company because they had a lot of knowledge on the subject. Who do i look for the best information about the tech of tomorrow if not the people who are making it?

AI skeptics dont live in the real world

but for now, his approach is textbook Silicon Valley mythmaking

The difference is that in this case it is not hype—it is reality. It’s not a myth, it is happening right now. We are chugging inevitably down the track to the most dramatic discovery in human history. And Altman’s views on solving the climate crisis, disease, nuclear fusion… they are all within reach. If anything we need to increase our speed to get us there ASAP.