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[–] sanzky@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

can outlets please stop echoing every stupid thing this man says? we all know he is lying (including him) he is just pushing a very specific narrative. covering him just helps him spread his AI gospel

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sam Altman probably owns the media

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Open AI is mostly owned by Microsoft, who owns NBC. He's paid by the people who own the media.

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[–] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sam altman working hard on becoming the most hated human of the month.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This point I feel like the grim reaper owes us a few dead billionaires after been a dick all year.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think we need to be the change we want in this world.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

If only these words of wisdom were taught to all the little children.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 days ago

AI seemed kinda cool... 5 years ago... 😂

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 14 points 2 days ago

Oh, the morons are definitely worshipping AI.

My brain-dead neighbor who said he would ask chatgpt when garbage day was after I told him what day it was and then pointed at a sign the city zip-tied to the parking sign 15 feet from where we were standing at our front door that said what day it was. That kid definitely worships AI.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 20 points 2 days ago

every photo of his face I see is somehow even more punchable than the previous photo of his face I saw

[–] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I will say, as an old and fat and gay millennial, Gen Z actually does make me optimistic with this trend I noticed of a lot of them rejecting newer tech and going more analog.

I even know a few who tossed out their smartphones for dumbphones and some of my other Gen Z friends asked me for help on how to burn CDs.

I dunno, with how bad things are these days, this is something that gives me hope.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Millennials need to stick with supporting Gen-Z. I feel like as people start inheriting money, or choosing to use destructive tech like AI, the media is going to get better and better at dividing Millennials. Elder Millennials are most at risk of splitting off.

I don't want us to get to a point where Gen Alpha hates Millennials. Millennials are very good at rejecting media programming and trying to break systemic cycles, hopefully that's our thing, and the next generations can steer the ship somewhere better than boomers did.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

CDs are digital storage - source: every CD player from the 80s through the 90s proudly displayed a “digital” decal on its body.

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[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 78 points 3 days ago
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

By posting this type of shit you are building his platform and legitimizing his opinion.

You are an enabler of one of the most privileged, selfish, and arrogant pieces of shit alive.

Stop.

This goes for OP and Futurism.

People like Altman live by the saying "No press is bad press", by both ways you can interpret it:

  • There's no such thing as bad press; and
  • Not being in the press is bad.

Even if ragebait/engagement-bait. In the end it only legitimizes him.

And I get that by responding I'm also engaging, but I see this type of comment as more of an "investment" than an "engagement".

[–] berno@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"You need to understand that Sam [Altman] can never be trusted." "He is a sociopath. He would do anything."

-Aaron Swartz

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that Altman was relevant enough to comment on when Swartz was still alive

[–] berno@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Altman was at ycombinator along with Aaron

[–] bollvirtuoso@lemmy.world 84 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Saying "you don't need your own RAM" is the "let them eat cake" of this generation

[–] berno@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

"You need to understand that Sam [Altman] can never be trusted." "He is a sociopath. He would do anything."

-Aaron Swartz

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[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

I mean something that was cool 5 years ago is still better than something that's not cool now right?

[–] eicker@lemmy.world 242 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Nothing screams disruptive innovation like a billionaire scolding young people for not being excited enough about the technology making entry level jobs disappear. Apparently Gen Z should stop chasing what was cool five years ago and start chasing whatever Sam Altman needs investors to believe is cool this quarter.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 64 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (20 children)

Historic elite psychopaths: "let them eat cake"

Late stage capitalism elite psychopaths: "The peasants should welcome our totalitarian dystopia, devoid of cake"

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[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

Stop posting things CEOs say they are pathological liars.

[–] bugsy@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago

Fuck Sam Altmam

[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 155 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Somewhere in the forest there exists a tree planted just to replace the oxygen Sam Altman wastes. He should find it and apologize.

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[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 63 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I must be off my game today. A headline started with “Sam Altman Says” and I accidentally read the whole headline.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 122 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

Saying that a whole generation of people are lame and then having one of the lamest pictures in the history of humanity taken of yourself, ok

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 99 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

I read lamest picture and my mind immediately jumped here

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[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago

Also the picture looks like it's from 5 years ago of someone who's trying a bit too hard to be cool 😂

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[–] ILikeStupidMemes@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 days ago

What would be cool is you turning into a corpse Sam.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 91 points 4 days ago

The generation that can't find work and start their lives because of AI isn't cheerleading for AI. Huh.

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 36 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I'm gen-x and trying to think of what was cool 5 years ago. 2021. So middle of the pandemic. I guess wearing funky masks, working from home, socially isolating? Aw shit, I miss those things too.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah because whatever people like you get their grubby little hands on, it instantly gets enshittified.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sam Altman is lame for still breathing

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

"I could easily afford to do that 5 years ago," Billionaire says of people trying to live their lives within their budgets.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 55 points 4 days ago (8 children)

AI was cool 5 years ago. It's not anymore.

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[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 4 days ago

I'm Gen X, but Gen Z right now is my fuckin' hero. Every time I hear a story about young folks rejecting AI and taking critical thinking and creative writing classes, it casts a ray of hope.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This guy is really enjoying the smell of his own farts now.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 44 points 4 days ago

He's basically saying he needs five more years of US tax payer subsidy before he can start turning a profit. LMFAO.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 34 points 4 days ago

Like anyone would listen to THIS guy about what is "cool."

You know what's cool? Sociopathic Oligarchs stepping off of high buildings. Give it a try, Sam.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

Sam is so cool.

[–] CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

The thing that was cool 5 years ago was at least cool once. AI has yet to be cool and it doesn't look like it's heading in that direction. Meanwhile it's also taking a shitty economy and making it worse while enriching some of the worst humans alive.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cool things don’t have an expiration date. That’s a depressing as fuck way to look at life.

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[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Live your life as an inverse Altman. What ever he says, do the opposite.

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