Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his ambitious plan for the World project, formerly known as Worldcoin.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/
@FeloniousPunk @ai6yr I was telling my Ma about it today on Tower Bridge.
(That's not a British euphemism, we really were on Tower Bridge when I was telling my ma about these sad, empty people getting fooled by a 100 year old Psychics' trick.)
Only a matter of time before Altman tells his mindless machine to whisper "kill the unbelievers" to all thousands of unique and special Chosen Ones.
OpenAI has dialed back a significant restructuring plan, with its nonprofit parent retaining control in a move that is likely to limit CEO Sam Altman's power over the pioneering maker of ChatGPT. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/06/tech/openai-conversion-nonprofit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #openai #ai #chatgpt #samaltman #elonmusk
Everything about this makes me cringe. OpenAI: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870819
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114427550784058271
Social media has proven to be socially toxic. Weaponized / profiteering LLM scale that toxicity disruption by orders of magnitude.
#OpenAI #GPT4o #sycophancy <-- really? really?? #Trumpism #toxicity #BiteMe #SamAltman #TrumpSycophancy #Trumpism #Christofascism
I love how #SamAltman wants to build intelligent computers, and then will likely end up taking them to the gravel pit to put them down if people don't like their personality.
Sam Altman's plan to steal your biometrics is coming to the US!
Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning ID technology debuts in the US
If it feels like ChatGPT is laying on the flattery a little thick, you're not the only one who's noticed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the latest batch of updates made to its GPT-4o model have made it too much of a people pleaser. Via @cnet. #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI #SamAltman #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/4ZcVQF
@exchgr watched that and the previous one from 5 years ago. This after reading her final Observer piece. Sad. I didn’t pick up on quite the hostility in the second TED audience, though I wasn’t on the stage. What a brave woman and important message.
I used to leave my #silentsunday photos up but now I share and delete after a day or so. The #AI #samaltman chilling effect.
[PL] Dzisiaj piszę o funkcji fatycznej w modelach LLM oraz o niezrozumieniu problemu rzekomych kosztów przez komentariat internetowy i dziennikarzy technologicznych.
#ai #llm #openai #chatgpt #samaltman
https://dadalo.pl/tech/funkcja-fatyczna-w-modelach-llm-generuje-straty/
I'm hearing that Sam Altman is imploring people to stop saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT. He claims it's costing OpenAI millions or tens of millions of dollars to process those parts of messages, which he thinks are extraneous.
I have some thoughts on this:
- Nobody should be taking advice about Tech from anyone who's as full of shit as Sam Altman.
- If ChatGPT is so poorly made that simple displays of manners are sending OpenAI broke even more quickly than the unprofitability resulting from their own inept business decisions, I can only urge you to maintain your fine sense of manners.
- Humans have a tendency to anthropomorphise machines; they treat computers like they treat people. People want an empathic connection to people, and part of that includes being polite to people. When Sam Altman is telling people to stop being polite to computers, he's saying he thinks it's okay for people not to be polite to people. That reveals what sort of person he is: lacking empathy to the point of being toxic.
- Suppose those annoying Roko's Basilisk twerps are right. Suppose a magical Artificial Intelligence God springs into existence from doing a copy-and-paste of your Facebook posts and by observing millions of tiresome Tech Bros arguing on Stack Overflow about their preferred colour for a bike-shed. According to the fable of Roko's Basilisk, that AI God is petty and vengeful — even worse than a basement -dwelling chud with a grudge and a burner-account on Reddit. It has a good memory, and it's made a list of people it wants to torture for eternity. And, you were rude to the ChatGPT and didn't even say "Please" and "Thankyou" occasionally, so now you've painted a target on your back. I'm so sorry, but you brought this on yourself because you listened to Sam Fucking Altman.
“I’m delighted to announce #PeterThiel is joining #YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners.
In addition to founding #PayPal and #Palantir and being the first investor in #Facebook, Peter has been involved with many of the most important #technology companies of the last 15 years, both personally and through #FoundersFund, and the founders of those companies will generally tell you he has been their best source of #strategic #advice.” — Sam Altman, 2015.
Compare the sign on blog post (Altman) to the tweet (pg as shown).
When you take capital from #Thiel, then only realise a decade later it wasn’t a good idea. At the time when this was announced I thought, “Oh shit #PG, don’t do it”. Then history.
It’s the lure of capital. You get covered in the deeds of these shitty founders (Thiel) and you have to back track, knowing it was blood money.
#Startups / #YCombinator / #pg / #SamAltman / #BloodMoney / #tech / #technology / #merica <https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-peter/>
Ylellä on kriittinen dokkari tekoälystä. Köyhissä maissa ihmiset luokittelevat video- ja tekstiaineistoa tekoälyn kouluttamiseksi. Vastineeksi he saavat kitupalkan ja mielenterveysongelmia, sillä aineisto sisältää väkivaltaa ja raskaita rikoksia. Ts. samaa tuotannon ulkoistamista köyhiin, vähän säädeltyihin maihin kolonialismin hengessä kuin vaate-, kaivos- ja elektroniikkateollisuudessa.
Samaan aikaan tekoäly-yhtiöiden johtajat tavoittelevat ikuista elämää koneen sisällä ja uskovat, että ihmiskyvyt ylittävä tekoäly ratkaisisi ihmisten tuottamat ongelmat. Ei, tämä ei ole kyberpunkia, vaan totisinta totta.
https://areena.yle.fi/1-72552985
Alkuperäisnimi : Les Sacrifiés de l'IA
Ohjaaja: Henri Poulain
Vuosi: 2024
Not good: OpenAI is building a social network
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694877
"This kind of news should be a death-knell for OpenAI"
.. to challenge Musk/X/Grok | Zuckerberg/LlAMA/MetaAI
Perhaps explains also recent move by Trump sycophant Zuckerberg / Meta to push the LlAMA LLM programming / content further to the right.
https://bsky.app/profile/persagen.bsky.social/post/3lmhu3j4mzs2v
OpenAI plant offenbar ein eigenes soziales Netzwerk
Ein Bericht von The Verge zeigt, dass OpenAI möglicherweise an der Entwicklung eines sozialen Netzwerks arbeitet, das sich an Plattformen wie X (ehemals Twitter) orientieren könnte. Ob dieses soziale Netzwerk als eigenständige
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/openai-plant-offenbar-ein-eigenes-soziales-netzwerk/
#News #Tellerrand #AIDaten #ChatGPTFeed #MuskVsOpenAI #OpenAISozialePlattform #OpenAIZukunftsplne #SamAltman #XKonkurrenz
OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network. Via @Techcrunch. #ChatGPT #X #SamAltman #ElonMusk #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/AMWGCF
”…Sam Altman is, despite outward appearances, not a nice fellow. This came apparent in a new way on Friday, when TED’s leader, Chris Anderson, usually quite friendly to AI, pushed Sam on copyright issues.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/sam-altmans-attitude-problem
#samaltman #altman #openai #intellectualproperty
This man is such a fucking creep.....truly 'an insult to Life itself'
https://www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt-memory-will-remember-everything-youve-ever-told-it
“This is ChatGPT
writing a TED Talk in the style of Carole Cadwalladr.
And it is creepily plausible.
But what it doesn't know,
because AI is actually as dumb as a rock,
is that I am going to turn to Sam Altman,
who is coming here, a TED speaker,
and say that this does not belong to you.
ChatGPT has been trained on my IP,
my labor, my personal data.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#chatgpt #openai
#ip #intellectualproperty
#samaltman #altman
There was huge backlash last month when OpenAI announced its new AI image generator and demonstrated it by showing Studio Ghibli-inspired pictures. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, responded to the criticism last Sunday by describing it as "democratization" of art creation. @ArtNews's digital director Harrison Jacobs says Altman's missed the point, quoting Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. "I can’t watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
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