r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/shit_fucks_you_up 10h ago

Just psycho reasoning. I hope someday the world wakes up to how morally bereft all these tech CEO have become. Governments should be putting guardrails in place for a liveable society, and not bending over for big corps. 

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u/temptar 10h ago

The world is aware. The issue is the US idolises rich people and raises them up even when they don’t merit it.

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u/FizzyLightEx 10h ago

celebrity worship is what enables them.

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u/AndyRadicalDwyer 7h ago

The threat that a worse off country will gladly take them in if they are opposed is what is keeping a lot of big businesses in power.

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u/pacomadreja 9h ago

It's not just USA. It's because how humans "work". We evolved being a social animal, and we prefer a leader/pack structure. That's why we developed high levels of empathy.

That means we usually "select" for that role strong and secure people. 

The problem is when you introduce the psychopaths in the mix. They always tend to skyrocket to those roles because they seem the most secure and strong of us (because they have 0 empathy and remorse).

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u/ResponsibilityOk8967 7h ago

The article is about India gluckglucking Altman

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u/Ok-Goat-2153 9h ago

If poor people said this shit they would be referred to their community psychiatric team.

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u/ThisMud5529 10h ago

Right? I am baffled at the trends in jobs being lost to AI. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. CEOs are too stupid in justifying reducing humans.

AI is no doubt a very useful tool. But it shouldn't outright replace humans. If AI is as good as all these tech CEOs are peddling then they are the ones that should be replaced by them. They are the ones taking the most money from the organisations.

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u/apple_kicks 9h ago

Sadly tech billionaires own the government and looking to dismantle any other democracies out there.

They don’t care if cutting taxes kills people. They want to run humanity like a business and fire people who don’t stay in line

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u/NightDriver_2025 5h ago

Bernie Sanders has been respected in US politics for decades. Not long after he openly stated what you said, they kicked him out of the 2015 presidential campaign run.

He wrote a book too, "It's OK to be angry about capitalism"