I'll sell Sam Altman an ounce of dignity, only a small 1 billion dollar fee.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Companies can already buy intelligence as a utility. It's called contractor work. Buying tokens from Sam Altman is not going to result in the outcomes the companies want. Hire me instead, at least I kind of know what I'm doing.
Putting aside that what they sell is not even inteligence: if they are providing a utility, then let’s regulate them like a utility, e.g. electricity distribution
Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil is a cure for everything.
The wording also struck a nerve because many AI models were trained on enormous amounts of publicly available internet data such as books, articles, forums and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.
That's much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.
It also means there's nothing unique about their AI that couldn't be replicated by someone else.
He's basically selling bottled tap water, you can get the same thing by just going into your kitchen. There is no actual product.
and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.
That's much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.
We were never even asked for permission to use our works and words.
Stealing your original work so you can pay for a regurgitated version of it.
So basically a world in which the only ideas that exist are approved by AI companies? I know evocations of 1984 have been a cliche for ages but
Stop buying up all the chips you worthless piece of shit.
There are plenty of people with solar panels and wells. The beauty of the internet and mobile compute is having the wealth of human knowledge at your fingertips. It's DIY, but easy. Just Google it (RIP Google). If the goal is centralization and control, chat with IBM. They have their place, but it was a slow crawl out of the muck they put themselves in. Someone will always come along and realize that ease and accessibility are key to the end user, and they'll kick your whole business out from under you, every time.
Why does he keep calling it "intelligence"? It's not intelligent. Even calling it AI is a stretch. It's an LLM.
Also, intelligence already means something else. When phrased like it is in this context, it sounds like he's talking about selling espionage.
But then again, telemetry and adware are essentially espionage. So maybe that is what he means...
Lmao, Sam Altman wouldn't know what intelligence looked like even if it came up and punched him in the face.
Flimflam Sam says…
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Luckily, people who don't buy intelligence from him tend to have enough already.
Any instance of LLMs being adduced as intelligence must be mercilessly ridiculed and mocked. No one impressed by slop should ever be permitted contribution to decisions affecting anyone not similarly cognitively impaired.
LLMs are only AI as Accelerators and Amplifiers of Ignorance and Incompetence, with vanishingly scarce examples of Insight.
This is kind of bullshit. It doesn't allow a corporate goon with an MBA to hire a virtual desktop developer but it does amplify the work one can do. If you think it can't do anything you are pretty far off from reality.
Writing tests faster. Writing docs faster. Writing exploratory code faster even if you don't ultimately use the code. Splitting out general utility functions that are nice to have but which you wouldn't think. Refactoring.
Maybe if you are top 1% working on hard problems and mentoring it just slows you down meanwhile the bottom 50% has lots of work to do which it really does help with
yeah what are you gonna do about it? Just do things yourself!?! I don't think so!!
Altman will say anything to keep the scam alive
as promise to his handler, peter thiel, thiel was on all in on Palantir AI until he likely saw where it was going recently.
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It's not intelligence
Its the vast, free resource of the internet. Mined, paywalled, repackaged and sold back to you at a premium by rent seeking talentless hacks
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Every motherfucker who went “what am I ever gonna USE this for?!” in computer classes in school are the same ones who like this magic man’s funny words and “save so much time writing emails” and say shit like “Yeah but what are we gonna do? That’s progress!”
I have lost respect for so many people.
I think that's the problem, most people think this is movie A.I. and it can do anything. In reality it's just a tool like the computer is a tool. I use A.I. all the time to help me do my work, I don't use it to do my work.
Ollama
Please Sam, do the world a favor and step in front of a bus.
Call me paranoid but comments like this really have me worried about forced transhumanism
The real threats are much less sci-fi and more good old fashioned resource theft and exploitative slavery.
Exploitative slavery via technological means is a possibility with supportive evidence. It isn't the 1800s anymore - this is shadowrun.
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