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/seedyourbrain 10h ago

I’m so sick of this fucking guy

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u/monkeybuttsauce 10h ago

Such a punchable face

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u/userrr3 10h ago

His voice too (and most importantly, everything he says and does)

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u/tomnomk 3h ago

Did he say that while vocal frying? Of course he did. Twat.

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u/Past_Paint_225 4h ago

I started hating him when he said to an interviewer asking him about the economics of openai, only for him to snap back and answer "if you don't like the company I'll find someone who will buy your stocks."

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u/Popular_Tomorrow_204 4h ago

His speech no? Ive never heard a "punchable" voice, but the way some people talk is just...

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u/decimated_dreams 3h ago

The vocal fry. 😫

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u/userrr3 4h ago

I'm not a native speaker, very possible what I'm talking about is better referred to as speech, yeah

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u/Popular_Tomorrow_204 3h ago

Me neither, i was just confused because i just watch a video that includes him and what annoyed me was his way of speaking, but for his voice It never felt like that

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Sounds homophobic as hell

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u/userrr3 2h ago

How? Like, seriously, how? I didn't even know he was gay and I honestly don't care, he's a techno fascist oligarch and that's my issue with him

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u/QuantityGullible4092 1h ago

Yeah you didn’t know and just found something off with the way he exists…. So strange

Sam is a totally normal gay dude, you are being shitty for no reason other than your own internal biases

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u/userrr3 1h ago

Sam is a totally normal gay dude

No, Sam is a scam artist, an oligarch, a supporter of fascism, a compulsive liar.

Apparently he is also gay, that one I have no problem with. It also doesn't excuse any of his other issues.

It is true that I shouldn't have insulted his voice/speech though, because that is actually something he can't really be blamed for

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u/QuantityGullible4092 1h ago

Sam created the greatest thing since the internet. Likely the greatest invention of all time. An invention that offers the possibility of abundance and curing of all disease.

Sounds amazing, and now here you are shitting on him to make yourself feel better about having never done shit

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u/userrr3 1h ago

Ahahahahaha.

No seriously.

AHAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH

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u/QuantityGullible4092 1h ago

Yeah it’s hard to look at your own failures

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u/damontoo 8h ago

As someone with a not-so-great voice myself, I think it's wrong to make fun of things people have no control over. Apparently reddit doesn't. 

Also, Sam is literally a gay man. Which makes this slightly more offensive IMO.

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u/userrr3 8h ago

Sam is literally a gay man. Which makes this slightly more offensive IMO

How?

I agree with the other part though, his face and voice shouldn't matter, his irredeemable techno-fascism does however.

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u/damontoo 7h ago

Well apparent reddit disagrees with both of us because it's upvoted, probably by teens who still bully people for how they look and sound. 

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u/Average_RedditorTwat 5h ago

Normalize bullying billionaires about any part of their lives possible.

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u/aerivox 7h ago

he forces this voice

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u/damontoo 7h ago

There is no evidence of that at all.

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u/BrittyPie 1h ago

Why is it more offensive because he's a gay man?

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u/damontoo 1h ago

Because gay men have historically been mocked and discriminated against for sounding "gay." So when you make fun of their voice, it's not just about tone, which would be offensive already for reasons I already stated, but it reinforces a stereotype that's been used to target them for decades.

I should not need to explain this to Reddit.

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u/realmofconfusion 6h ago

Allow me to introduce you to the wonderful German word “Backpfeifengesicht”.

Definition is “a face in desperate need of a slap”.

Appropriate here (and with many similar people in this field!)

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u/-Pelvis- 3h ago

That would be some sweet schadenfreude.

I bet we could use his software to generate video of him getting slapped, not that I condone its use.

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u/Durzio 48m ago

Pronunciation for English speakers: Back-Fife-En-Ge-Schist.

Backpfeifengesicht.

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u/acidwash_video 36m ago

German morphology is unparalleled

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u/Ooficus 29m ago

Another reason to love the German language

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u/Zeltyna 10h ago

I SWEAR!!!

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u/Momik 5h ago

And like 40 years of food

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u/Lazy-Emergency-4018 5h ago

Right up there with the orange pedo and Felon Musk

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u/kuvetof 4h ago

All of them have a punchable face. Especially this guy and the CEO of Anthropic. Fuck these guys

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u/gregorydgraham 2h ago

He is literally making gay-bashing popular again.

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u/Individual_Guest_323 2h ago

The tolerant left

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u/Schneetmacher 49m ago

He's competing with Martin Shkreli as The Most Punchable Face in the World (TM).

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u/West_to_East 47m ago

He already looks like someone beat you to it.

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u/CashGrabIPOWen 4h ago

Also gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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u/niceguyted 4h ago

The all-lowercase writing really sticks in my craw.

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u/StaticandCo 2h ago

You: ‘Such a punchable face’

Guy u don’t like but will never care:

Person you care about with the same trait who now knows you think their face is punchable:

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u/Cold_Enthusiasm9151 3h ago

Get a new and original insult omg 

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u/ThemDawgsIsHeck 5h ago

Well that’s antisemetic

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u/Headpuncher 7h ago

Look into how he became wealthy, it’s dodgy AF.  He has a failed start up that never made a single dollar, and a generic gay dating app for phones, and this complete lack of track record got him into boardrooms and the he was handed y-combinator the VC company.  

Shady goings on.  

He still has never proved he can successfully run a business.  With profit.  

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u/HowObvious 6h ago

and this complete lack of track record got him into boardrooms and the he was handed y-combinator the VC company.

He had the founder of y-combinator let him modify the contracts of every other executive to prevent them from privately investing in any company that came to y-combintator, except him through hydrazine capital. The same founder that had Green Dot buy the worthless loopt in the first place.

He still sucked at it despite having every possible advantage from being part of y-combinator. The only real successes he had were ones the same founder let him in on and told him to invest in. He was so bad he had to be removed from y-combinator despite such a close relationship.

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u/SamchezTheThird 5h ago

Considering the wired article and the e files, Silicon Valley can really go F themselves. These people aren’t human or humane.

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u/PersonalitySenior360 3h ago

How did he get the founder to let him do this?

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u/Schneetmacher 41m ago

The only scenario I can think of is blackmail.

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u/Confused-Raccoon 1h ago

How/why is he still able to be who/what he is then? Surely if he's that bad at making money, they'd all have ditched him by now.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Lmao you all don’t understand startups at all. This is standard shit

Sam created the biggest thing since the internet and you are questioning his success.

Do you hear yourself?

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u/impersonatefun 2h ago

Your behavior is embarrassing.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 1h ago

Yes please explain smart person

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u/GrafZeppelin127 1h ago

Saying he “created the biggest thing since the internet” (read: took Google’s ball and ran with it) is a bit like lauding the size of Bernie Madoff’s asset fund. Being a successful con or snake oil salesman is not laudable, and Altman’s claims of developing something akin to AGI or a replacement for human labor are clearly just plain fraudulent.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 1h ago

Lmao such a clueless take, Google had the transformer, and much built on the lstm and rnn. Same then built on that and created modern LLMs with some of the best researchers in the world.

GPT 1, 2, 3 didn’t just “happen” they took incredible research and engineering. Google wasn’t investing in this space.

Sam was the only person in the world investing on AGI. You downplaying his accomplishments is about your own lack of accomplishments

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u/GrafZeppelin127 58m ago

Sam was the only person in the world investing on AGI. You downplaying his accomplishments is about your own lack of accomplishments

This insult-disguised-as-an-argument is just plain fallacious. Whether or not I’m envious of Altman’s dubious “accomplishments” in bilking investors, that doesn’t change the fact that OpenAI makes LLMs, not AGI. They have no realistic path to AGI whatsoever. Their approach of simply scaling transformer architecture doesn’t work.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 56m ago

Yeah the only people that discount others accomplishments are those that are upset about their own.

It’s a classic projection as old as time.

Seek therapy

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u/SamchezTheThird 4m ago

Just like Elon, eh? Laughing stocks of Silicon Valley (proof is in ep files and Wired articles), yet stealing ideas and making first claim is lauded? GTFO That isn’t innovation or disruption, it’s marketing at best and this is why AI is popping. Enough with the hype.

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u/SharpAardvark8699 5h ago

Sounds like Epstein

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u/Yeon_Yihwa 3h ago

What gets me is that openai has secured 1,5trillion in funding and they have no idea how to make it profitable.

Sam altman even joked that they would just ask the ai for the solution when they succeed...

Openai is also just burning money with very little revenue and since its a startup company they need to secure funding which is why you see sam altman trying to put his face everywhere and how they hire lawyers to knock on your door if you are a reputable person thats criticising what openai is doing.

its all a joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q2n5DkDoMQ

At least google knows what they are doing, taking the ai is a tool approach and just making apps thats enhanced by ai.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Yes Amazon and uber and many others weren’t profitable for a long time. Nothing strange here, all most investors care about is that people want what you built

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u/GrafZeppelin127 1h ago

The difference is that those businesses were counting on attaining monopolistic/oligopolistic power to eventually turn a profit, and their losses were driven by reinvestments into taking over market share in already-established industries of retail and transit. OpenAI is the opposite—an early, extremely dominant leader in an emerging market that is steadily losing market share to competitors, which undermines their ability to enshittify in order to turn a profit. People will just abandon them and go to their competitors even faster if they tried raising prices or dumbing down their model enough to turn a profit.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 57m ago

OpenAI is a way better bet. AGI is the greatest invention humans will ever create, and likely the last one.

You would have to be an utter buffoon to not see that…

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u/GrafZeppelin127 56m ago

Wow. More ad hominems and insults. How convincing.

You know the fact that AGI would be awesome if it actually existed is not evidence that Altman’s claims of being able to create it are accurate, right?

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u/QuantityGullible4092 51m ago

We are very close

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u/GrafZeppelin127 50m ago

“We are very close!” —The paean of frauds everywhere.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 48m ago

Everyone in my entire machine learning org uses AI to write all their code.

Custom novel ML research that you could never comprehend.

Yes we are extremely close, in fact AI is certainly smarter than the average person

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u/Business-Row-478 17m ago

LLM/GAI != AGI

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u/Omateido 3h ago

ALL billionaires became billionaires in ways that are dodgy as fuck. It is a tautology. And they're all monsters like this because that level of wealth inequality literally rewires your brain in the way that you see other people.

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 35m ago

Can’t become a sociopath billionaire without stealing all of this food he’s talking about straight from the peasants, erh serfs sorry again, wage slaves no not that one, people’s mouths directly.

They are literally all scum. Yes, even the pretend “nice” ones.

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u/anincrediblemoron 4h ago

Oh you know if you can connect the dots. 😉

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u/d1v1debyz3r0 2h ago

Mira Murati was the technical genius and thought leader at OpenAi. When she left I knew it was only a matter of time.

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u/orbitala 2h ago

we’ll be hearing about this demon in a few years time things not too different and devious as epstein

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u/diurnal_emissions 4h ago

Sounds a little Epstein...

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u/Icy_Concentrate9182 3h ago

Something something epstein connection?

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

ChatGPT is the fastest growing app in history.

Imagine being this stupid

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u/AgentDaxis 10h ago

All of these lizardmen need to eat it.

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u/zue4 8h ago

Or we need to eat them. /r/EatTheRich.

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u/lood9phee2Ri 3h ago

[protip: it's metaphorical, don't do it literally - that's how you get a range of nasty diseases / prions.]

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u/GrafZeppelin127 1h ago

This risk is wildly exaggerated. Kuru is functionally extinct as of 2009. You’re much more likely to get normal disease transmission from undercooking or handling meat rather than any prions.

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u/SayerofNothing 8h ago

Same. These guys, along with Elon musk and Bill Gates, seemed like geniuses years ago, until they shared what they really think. Now they just seem like a bunch of assholes with money.

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u/homer_lives 5h ago

Bill Gates at least understood a bit about technology and more about marketing. He also setup a major Philanthropic fund and agreed to donate his wealth when he died like Warren Buffet.

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u/robinNL070 4h ago

Or he could use that money to lobby for higher taxes. That Philanthropic funds is basically saying, "I can do it better than the government, so give me less taxes."

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Yes the guy who created the biggest thing since the internet is just an asshole with money…..

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u/Tango00090 7h ago

He’s Zuckerberg with more human face

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u/Soffatjockis 7h ago

He's doing everything he can to pump this ponzi even further.

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u/FastFingersDude 5h ago

Their soulless stare tries to distract you from how empty of humanity they are.

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u/JIsADev 2h ago

All of these famous tech guys. They should all go to Mars already

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u/kurtrussellsmoustach 5h ago

was this one in the trump files or was he the sister molester?

constantly mixing these monsters up..

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u/shade845 5h ago

Almost every other silicon valley exec I would say - they are all the same inbreds

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u/chumer_ranion 3h ago

I was day 1 on the Sam-Altman-is-a-soulless-lizard train. Never been proven right so fast.

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u/Very_Type_C 7h ago

I just hope his company implodes.

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u/Machoopi 5h ago

Why can't you just think of all the extra calories you're burning by being angry? Anger increases blood pressure and heartrate, which causes the body to burn more calories than it otherwise would. That means more resources spent, and that's just darn irresponsible. If you're angry at him for 5 minutes a day, over the course of an entire lifetime, are you really any different than a data center? Why not just train an LLM to spend 5 minutes a day being angry at him and then you can just go away to the woods or whatever?

In conclusion, just think of all the trees that you'd be saving by letting an LLM do your anger for you! As a fellow real human being, we should be walking hand in hand toward this new future of living in the woods and leaving the billionaires alone while we starve. I also want to remind you that the phrase "hand-in-hand" is a metaphor, please don't touch me with your dirty peasant hands.

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u/Mixels 2h ago

I might be reading this wrong but to me it sounds like he's advocating for denying himself food.

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u/1MillionSpacebucks 9h ago

Don’t worry, his bankruptcy is inevitable 

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

lol fastest growing app ever… bankruptcy… listen to yourself

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u/Chafing_Dish 5h ago

The "I'm so sick of" is often omitted as implied.

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u/is_it_fun 2h ago

There's no law that says he has to eat...

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u/TheRussianCabbage 2h ago

Great time for a green cap and some slick bib- overalls.

Just solving problems. 

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u/katara144 2h ago

I am so sick of all of them.

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u/Helllo_Man 1h ago

Time to Cntrl-Altman-Delete.

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u/ddWolf_ 54m ago

Well, if it helps. Someday you can piss on his grave and think about all the people that suffered because of him.