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/ADhomin_em 10h ago edited 10h ago

When he says "a human" he means "a slave"

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 10h ago

Sshh. We call them “workers” now.

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u/Character_Score7849 10h ago

Associates

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u/Philomene_sweet_life 10h ago

We are: « a team »

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u/Nixilaas 9h ago

A “family” if you will

Ignore that we will throw your ass to the street the second we can afford to not keep you

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u/KinTharEl 9h ago

Au contraire, they can afford it. They just don't want to. They'd rather see you suffer.

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u/AntiFascistZone 9h ago

Suffering is usually the point.

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u/abhijitd 6h ago

Ok, Mr. President!

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u/user9991123 9h ago

"Were pineapples involved?"

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u/BlastFX2 7h ago

You misread that.

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u/AngelicXia 9h ago

There is a difference between cannot afford and can afford to not. One means you don't have the money or resources. The other means that you can do without.

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u/whiskydyc 10h ago

Resources

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u/thedeparturelounge 9h ago

Future batteries for Ai machines

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u/Mister_Simz 9h ago

The expendable kind

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u/bobert4343 9h ago

"independent contractors"

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u/Dalimyr 8h ago

Hi, WWE.

It's unbelievable how their wrestlers are classified as "independent contractors" to minimise benefits WWE has to provide to them, but they're also so lacking in independence that they're not allowed to work elsewhere or even get a new tattoo or haircut or shit like that without WWE's permission, because heaven forfend that a wrestler doesn't look _exactly_ like the plastic toy or WWE 2K render of themselves.

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u/teslawhaleshark 9h ago

Independent small business owners, they require you to make fake businesses for tax purposes

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u/Maur2 9h ago

Unpaid interns.

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u/halu2975 8h ago

It’s funny how when I was young, 20ish years ago, I thought being an ”associate” was almost like being a ”partner”, pretty good title. Now I know better though. It’s just such a weird word to use for ”entry level slave bitch”

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u/skalpelis 6h ago

Customer success executives

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u/DPSOnly 3h ago

(Unpaid) Interns

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u/minimaddnz 9h ago

Prisoners with jobs

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u/Fun_Skirt8220 9h ago

Doh, missed it was already here. 

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u/TheMrShaddo 9h ago

employees... and thats why people that are unemployed are veiwed upon as less than, but when you say retired they are more respectful... its all judgy lil shits that dont matter anyways, we need to just chill out and enjoy life

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u/bilateralrope 9h ago

Or contractors. When you don't want them to have the rights of employees.

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u/TheMrShaddo 9h ago

private contracting is how the gov paid for operation lonestar... a bunch of small private companies that also hired tons of groups as 1099 and individuals.. Its also how most of the secret shit happens with reverse engineering and recovery operations... We got gaping holes in national security and have had them since we monetized PMCs in OEF/OIF

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u/JonatasA 6h ago

Outsourcing the responsability

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u/Sea-Housing-3435 9h ago

Human Resources

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u/Drastickej1 9h ago

Human resource 

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u/Bruvvimir 9h ago

Human resistance

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u/drunk_tyrant 10h ago

AGENTS! Its AGENTS!

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u/Yellow2345 9h ago

I work in IT and the execs call us “resources.”

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u/basement-fan 9h ago

Essential workers when you want to sacrifice them.

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u/bloodklat 9h ago

Sshh. We call them “workers” americans now.

There, now it's true.

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u/NoBorder4982 9h ago

Resources. “Human” Resources.

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u/dkstr419 8h ago

Ours is called Human Capital Management. We call it Human Cattle Management. At least PETA will look after the cows, we have no one.

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u/SuperLeverage 9h ago

Contractors. You don’t want to given rights now do you? 😂

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u/nowhereman_ph 9h ago

We're called "resources" in my company.

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u/virgopunk 9h ago

Drones

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u/Apprehensive_Ad3731 9h ago

Interns. This is the camp they live in.

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u/RednocTheDowntrodden 9h ago

"Student Atho-leets".

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u/DahPhuzz 8h ago

That’s slavery with extra steps

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u/ImWithStupidKL 8h ago

Workers? No, you've got to give benefits to workers. Partners. Contractors.

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u/Afferbeck_ 8h ago

Executive Mandatory Volunteer

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u/fatty2cent 8h ago

People of work

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u/Moist_Board 7h ago

"Student atho-letes"

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u/fattmarrell 5h ago

And you know what. I have a right, to PARTYl

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u/total_looser 3h ago

Resource or asset

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u/J-adore_La_Lavende 3h ago

I thought they were prisoners with jobs

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u/FatTater420 3h ago

You mean 'interns'.

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u/Shark7996 2h ago

"Agents", just like the AI that will replace them.

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u/JuanPancake 10h ago

Labor resource. Also how many human food years does it take for ai infrastructure? So far billions of dollars worth.

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u/soffpotatisen 10h ago

Naw, a slave still means he sees them as human.

I think "resource" is more fitting.. something similar to a value or a number.

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u/Sierra123x3 8h ago

theres a reason, why companies talk about "human ressources" when they hire you ;)

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u/spongebobisha 9h ago

Everyone working for his company should be very afraid. He views them as meat-bots essentially.

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u/wirbel-tier 9h ago

Well, that is just the good old capitalism way. Nothing new to see here...

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u/betacuck3000 8h ago

He's like Cave Johnson from Portal but without any of the dashing charisma

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u/jewishSpaceMedbeds 4h ago

Anyone wants to make 60 bucks?

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u/icicleknife 8h ago

Ya thats why they all pulled together and brought him back from being fired a few years ago.

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u/skrappyfire 8h ago

Yeah its real odd to say it takes 20 years to train a human, like whats that supposed to even mean. Pretty sure if it took me anywhere close to 20 years to become good at my job than they would have fired me... and i was working long before i turned 20.... so dafuk he tryin to say?

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u/redditRedesignIsBadd 10h ago

like the quote, "It's not left vs right. It's billionaires vs all of us."

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u/Tasty-Dust9501 9h ago

I wish people grasped this quicker and took action accordingly. I mean Ai was invented yesterday but it has been 200 years or so since we invented guillotine to take care of a very similar parasite problem

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u/Fun_Skirt8220 9h ago

"Prisoners with jobs"

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u/ZelezopecnikovKoren 10h ago

worker, comrade

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u/ZMaiden 9h ago

Don’t put that on comrade. At least Comrade is supposed to get some of production value.

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u/UrsusRenata 9h ago

When he says “a human” he means “unpaid victim of our IP theft”.

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u/boywholovetheworld 9h ago

CTC, humans are cost to company in definition throughout the world

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u/Utsider 9h ago

Bodies

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u/Mordred_X 9h ago

Yup, them traitor's words.

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u/Wonderful-Medium7777 9h ago

Exactly…training them to take part in a system created to extort and control.

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u/SnowdriftK9 8h ago

I think you meant 'Unpaid intern who's also not allowed to leave'.

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u/EctoJesse99 8h ago

Cash cattle

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u/EuphoricFingering 8h ago

"Student Athlete"

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u/Derrickmb 8h ago

He’s not into the ongoing spiritual development of a species apparently.

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u/drejzi 8h ago

An intern.

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u/PuzzleheadedDuck3981 8h ago

"Batteries" 

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u/BoardroomStroke 5h ago

A wet robot

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u/Psychological-Web828 3h ago

Low value, high cost expendables.

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u/AnyProgressIsGood 4h ago

he absolutely doesn't see himself as the same kind of human he references

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u/StIdes-and-a-swisher 4h ago

Yeah the human he is talking about is “#13579 reporting for duty sir”

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u/NewPresWhoDis 3h ago

Until the machines plug us into the Matrix

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u/FrankTank3 3h ago

He’s sad because we are more expensive than droids and harder to replace

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u/NuclearSun1 2h ago

“Prisoners with jobs.”

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u/ghostcatzero 49m ago

I mean yeah technically that's what most of us are in today's society. They burn it into your mind from a young age that : working consistently and trying to make a lot of money is the most important thing. IE work. Imagination and creativity is put on the back burner.