Call me when you can run AI on burritos.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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do you eat burritos ? because we can make things that can eat burrito eaters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
You can skip a step and run a computer on sunlight.
If you live in the right place you might already be doing so.
Training humans doesn't destroy the planet, nor the hardware market, nor it raises electric bills for all citizens, nor it concentrates billions in the hands of a few individuals like you are doing with your company and all your brainwashing attempts.
Right, none of those things were happening until just now.
Good point.
Let's turn off Sam to save energy.
“Now that we don’t do that, you see these things on the internet where, ‘Don’t use ChatGPT, it’s 17 gallons of water for each query’ or whatever,” Altman said. “This is completely untrue, totally insane, no connection to reality.”
He knows he's a con artist, he knows people know he's a con artist, and yet he's talking as if we were supposed to trust him to not be a con artist. That's basically to call everyone stupid/gullible/trash by proxy.
He added that it’s “fair” to be concerned about “the energy consumption — not per query, but in total, because the world is now using so much AI.” In his view, this means the world needs to “move towards nuclear or wind and solar very quickly.”
Even before those huge datacentres, "don't reduce consumption, increase production" is how we're cooking the planet.
There’s no legal requirement for tech companies to disclose how much energy and water they use,
That's something that could be fixed. At least in Europe, China, Japan; probably here in Latin America, too.
Altman also complained that many discussions about ChatGPT’s energy usage are “unfair,” especially when they focus on “how much energy it takes to train an AI model, relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query.”
Whataboutism at its grossest.
How would it know? Did it just look at the amount of robot fuel it used in a week and then compare?
I agree, in order to remain morally consistent we should remove all the most energy-intensive humans as well. Oh look, it's the billionaires. Well, you guys had a good run, time to get in the pit 
What if we used the energy produced by the human body to power AIs?
We can start by burning Sam Altman's to generate some electricity, but I still won't interact with the fucking clankers.
Why didn't i take the blue pill..?
Please inform him that I have no interest in what he thinks, and also remind him that he belongs in jail. Thank you.