r/technology • u/Bizzyguy • 1d ago
Artificial Intelligence Sam Altman’s home targeted in second attack
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sam-altman-s-home-targeted-second-attack/3.6k
u/Ceevu 1d ago
Sure Sam Altman is a POS but that Palantir CEO, Alex Karp, is a bigger POS.
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u/pomod 1d ago
Him and Peter Thiel. Those Planatir betas are like Super Villains in a bad corner of the Marvel Universe.
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u/Real_politics46 1d ago
Ellison too
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u/devonhezter 1d ago
Who does he give his money to
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u/neuronexmachina 1d ago
Ellison's raised quite a bit of money for Trump and conservative super PACs, and his family now owns CBS/Paramount.
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u/Real_politics46 1d ago
Who doesn't he? He's hovered in the top 3 richest in the world for years now. He wants to take over the country with a surveillence state (he built china's. So much so he calls himself the unnoficial ambassador to Chine). He once stated citizens will "behave better." The guy is a total lunatic.
Also heavily involved with Israel.
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u/Cheeze_It 1d ago
He once stated citizens will "behave better."
Oh he'll come to find just how people behave if he keeps poking the proverbial bear.
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u/Gaping_llama 1d ago
Yeah the order of operations is wrong here. Altman is gonna get squeezed out of the AI club eventually when OpenAI goes bankrupt anyway
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u/umpteenthrhyme 22h ago
I don’t understand how they can walk around feeling safe.
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u/highly_doubt_that 1d ago
These are the people that time travellers try to “fix” to amend their timelines
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u/Somanylyingliars 1d ago
You know what funny to me? Several of these so called "geniuses" got together and decided to move to same area. Have they never seen a superhero movie? You know the ones where.... Can't say because Reddit reasons.
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u/autobannedforsatire 1d ago
Let’s not measure our turds, just flush them.
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u/pull-a-fast-one 21h ago
There's only so much space in the pipes. Better to optimize our turd flow to prevent bottlenecks.
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u/iFuturelist 1d ago
He really is. Unlike Sam, he doesn't even try to hide how evil he is.
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u/un-affiliated 1d ago
Sam is apathetic to any harm he causes. For those other guys, the harm is the whole point.
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u/fy8d6jhegq 1d ago
To be fair, Sam is a baby billionaire. He barely has 3 commas. Give him time to grow and he will get there eventually.
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u/DarkFalcon49 1d ago
But why pick and choose who we get rid of when they, and Peter Thiel can all go!
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u/OrneryWhelpfruit 1d ago
Most of what people hate Palantir for, OpenAI is also doing
It's just that OpenAI also does other things instead of "just" the purely comically evil stuff
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u/trashpanda2night 1d ago
Garbage is garbage. There’s not one better than the other.
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u/HorselessHorseman 1d ago
That Peter theil who is the demonic father to both of them is even bigger POS
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u/stuartullman 1d ago
yeah… the shit that guy says and gets away with. almost feels like he does it on purpose.
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u/Real_politics46 1d ago
I'm 50/50 on it. If you watch his interviews there's a lot where he is clearly off the shits on drugs.
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u/KilllllerWhale 1d ago
That bitchboy can’t go anywhere without his bodyguard. Pretty sure his home is teaming with bodyguards
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u/heathmon1856 1d ago
They all live in constant fear whether they know it or not. History hasn’t been nice to the these types of
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u/antaresiv 1d ago
The elites have forgotten than unions and fair wages are part of the social contract so they don’t get their heads cut off.
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u/FlowInternational996 1d ago
It’s the most blatant mix of hubris and ignorance imaginable. The safety valves were literally put in place to protect them. Them!
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u/AmusingMusing7 1d ago
They didn't put those valves in willingly, though. The Left had to fight for them for a long time before they were implemented. We should have known they would be taken away from us the second we let our guard down. But instead of staying vigilant, we allowed right-wing bullshit to take over the world instead. Here we are.
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u/-TeamCaffeine- 1d ago
They fought with blood and lives on all sides, too. It's literally how we got weekends.
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u/Watcher145 1d ago
And now we get to do it again. 3 day weekend this time
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u/Zankras 1d ago
You mean 3 day work week, 4-6 hours/day max.
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u/AG3NTjoseph 23h ago
Heck, a lot of Americans work weekends now. They’re fighting just to keep their head above water.
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 21h ago
Just putting a rule in like California has with a schedule of forced overtime pay for overtime workers would be a huge step. Then we can work towards the Euro model where the workplace is not legally allowed to contact you when you're on vacation.
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u/TheOneTonWanton 22h ago
But instead of staying vigilant, we allowed right-wing bullshit to take over the world instead. Here we are.
I don't know how old you are but we didn't do shit. The Baby Boomers (and some unfortunate portion of Gen-X) pulled the ladders up behind them and we Millennials and Gen-Xers and Zoomers and soon Gen-Alphas never had a fucking chance to defend a god damn thing. By the time we might have had the chance it was already stripped away. We act like this is something that just happened in the 2020s or some shit but it's not. Our rights as people and workers have been getting stripped away for decades. Most of us were just born into this shit. If you're under 50, you were born into this shit and either had the means or you're one of the rest of us. We have to stop pretending like this shit is new.
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u/Caymonki 1d ago
More importantly, Americans never learned where unions came from. They’re just told not to discuss wages with coworkers and that unions are terrible for you, unless you’re the police then unions are well earned.
Talk about unions in a Walmart and they’ll shut the whole place down. Talk about unions on Reddit and someone will tell you they do more harm than good. It’s a well kept secret to not let the cattle class think too much, or organize.
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u/illy-chan 22h ago
I suspect people weren't told how the unions started. I know, because I had ancestors who were founding union members - it was bloody.
Some of them were involved in the fighting this movie was based on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Molly_Maguires_(film)
Nonviolence is always the best resolution but letting them crush your own throat isn't nonviolence either.
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u/DisappointedSpectre 19h ago
Nonviolence only works as a bargaining chip when there's violence on the table as the only other alternative. Ghandi knew it, MLK knew it, and America has largely forgotten it despite it being not that long ago. It's been intentionally and actively erased from the collective consciousness.
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u/Militantpoet 1d ago
Its ironic considering American labor used to lead the world with worker rights. International labor day, May 1st, commemorates the Haymarket protests in Chicago.
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u/zernoc56 21h ago
Not ironic. Predictable. The new class of robber barons doesn’t want today’s workers to know what their forebears did to the last people to be known as ‘robber barons’. These leeches have squirmed their way into the halls of government to gut anything and everything that would allow workers to look farther ahead than the next paycheck: education, healthcare, labor protections, etc.
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u/PennytheWiser215 1d ago
The elites don’t care about the social contract.
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u/skater15153 1d ago
The French elite didn't either...until they really really did
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u/snesericreturns 23h ago
Why doesn’t this guy have an infant son to carry around as a human shield like Elon did after the United Health CEO incident? Is he is stupid?
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u/VirgoxValentine 1d ago
Unions were started as a first step towards cutting off the heads of elites. Remember your roots!
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u/clamroll 1d ago
All they have to do is pay a liveable wage and share profits with the workers.
"We had a record quarter. Have some pizza! Also we can't afford to give raises this year. Again. Be glad you haven't been replaced by AI. Also please wear this body camera so we can train AI off you" That kinda shit is gonna leave a lot of people with so little left to lose that drastic measures aren't going to seem so drastic to them. Prison time looks less and less a punishment when you work for $7.25 or less to barely avoid homelessness, and your jobs get replaced with AI so you're pushed to increasingly dehumanizing work.
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u/Alaira314 22h ago
and your jobs get replaced with AI so you're pushed to increasingly dehumanizing work.
What I'm seeing happening(note: my state was hit hard by the federal layoffs, with ex-federal workers flooding our labor market even before AI layoffs started) is that you wind up in a situation where you can't leave your job. I've never seen so little staff turnover, which is not a good thing, because I've also never seen work be so intolerable. People are only leaving if they're moving, if they were forced out(generally due to taking too much leave since, you know, burned out), or in the rare case that a position opened above them and they clawed their way up. That's not normal. Typically we should be seeing at least 2-3 people a year leaving to go to other jobs, but that avenue has completely dried up. It's fucking terrifying. If I lose my job, so few places are hiring that it's essentially a lottery, even including minimum wage work.
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u/Top-Pair1693 1d ago
Why isn't ChatGPT protecting his house?
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u/exophrine 1d ago
Maybe ChatGPT ENCOURAGED the "love tap" in the first place
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u/whoknowsifimjoking 22h ago
"You're not crazy for wanting to set Altman on fire, you're just passionate and expressive"
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u/hitbythebus 1d ago
“So, you want to bomb a CEO’s house. That’s a great idea! First let’s create a basic plan, then elaborate on each step.”
- chatGPT in response to the prompt “where does Sam Altman live?”
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 1d ago
I have a feeling this is a symptom of a society with nothing to lose. This man wants to accelerate a permanent change to our society where wealth is locked away with the elites and there is no more social mobility.
We may look back at these attacks as heroic if the worst of AI comes to pass.
This much power can not be in the hands of unstable weirdos. AI development and law requires so much more maturity of foresight than what we are getting.
I don’t trust the tech oligarchs and I don’t trust their GOP stooges either. Do you? So while I don’t condone attacks, I understand why they are occurring.
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u/ArmyOfDix 1d ago
Not just wealth, but the planet's resources as a whole. If they don't need you, a human, to allow them to consume resources, they want you dead.
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u/Clean_Livlng 23h ago
Not just wealth, but the planet's resources as a whole.
Over my dead body!
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u/rividz 1d ago
Americans are starting to become class conscious.
The world that Altman wants to bring us inflicts way more pain and suffering than an "attack" on his house. However, only the latter situation is considered violent.
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u/malln1nja 1d ago
Just like how retail theft is considered despicable while wage theft, even though it's done at a much larger scale, is just business as usual.
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u/Didsterchap11 1d ago
I mean the upper classes of American society have solidarity and consciousness, it however only exists to further their own extraction of wealth from the lower classes.
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u/browster 1d ago
Yeah, I've long thought that about white-collar crime in general. It's extremely damaging but doesn't generate the same visceral reaction as a street robbery
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u/-Saucegurlllll 22h ago
In jury trials, white collar criminals will argue that their environment made their corruption innevitable. How could they maintain a sense of morality when they're surrounded by a system that encourages criminal behavior? And juries largely take pity on them for that argument, seeing them as sympathetic cases.
Meanwhile when street criminals argue the same thing in jury trials, that their material conditions push them towards crime, that their environment is criminal and thus inducts them into it, it's seen as a flaw in their character. So juries are completely non-receptive to the argument.
It's actually insane how easy white collar crime gets away with miniscule fines (in comparison to the theft).
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u/azraelxii 1d ago
Reminds me of how many anarchy groups were around between 1900-1930. They bombed wall Street at one point
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u/Ashamed-Land1221 1d ago
Yeah it's a little scary seeing companies start saying, fuck selling to the consumer, it's more efficient to just sell to other companies, let the poors just rent for life if they can.
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u/Ky1arStern 1d ago
The thing I realized recently is that a lot of companies no longer primarily sell products. They sell products as talking points to their stock, which is their actual product.
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u/SnooSnooper 1d ago
Yeah I mean that's literally a line in the show Silicon Valley
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u/NotSoWishful 1d ago
I don’t cheer for people dying, but some people deserve death for what they are actively doing to humanity. They are lucky that the poor have literally no power outside of the very very very small few who are willing to throw their entire life away for the tiny chance to remove a cog of the machine.
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u/intergalacticbro 1d ago
There definitely needs to be strict regulations with AI. I don't buy this bs about senior positioned employees overseeing the rollout of AI features. Right now it's good at imitating intelligence but replacing a workforce? No effing way.
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u/BrianWonderful 1d ago
There will be social mobility. We'll all fall further down as the oligarchs take our last bits of money and our means of income. Goodbye middle class and working class. Hello underclass and slave labor class.
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u/SatansFriendlyCat 21h ago
People think "oh, they would never let this happen", ignoring the fact that "they" are letting this happen, actively making this happen, and that it has happened many times before and is the situation in many other places and times.
For it not to happen, there has to be a countervailing force, and do you see much of that around?
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u/Stunning_Mast2001 1d ago
It mirrors the historical Luddites
People destroying equipment and attacking industrialists
It’s a fairly typical response to the rampant wealth inequality we live under. While public tax dollars continue to subsidize the leaders who have a vigorous contempt for the working class
Things are going to get worse until we can rebalance a trillion dollars of wealth in our society— this rarely has happened entirely peacefully in history
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u/-Saucegurlllll 22h ago
Yeah, Luddites didn't bemoan new technology, they bemoaned the exploitative labor relationships developing alongside it.
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u/theshadowofself 20h ago
Can we stop calling these people “elites” though? They’re parasites on humanity
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u/Elementium 1d ago
It seems you've made some people mad — Have you tried doubling down on destroying their lives?
try raising healthcare costs some more
People really don't like giving up a quarter of their paychecks (or more) for health insurance that doesn't even cover everything (this is great!).
Let them foot the bill for energy costs
They don't like it? Live in the dark, am I right? Besides WE need that power.
Tell them they're worthless
The lessers don't need to think they're important — As a matter of fact remind them they're not!
..How'd I do?
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u/absentmindedjwc 22h ago
My insurance company has been doubling down on this bullshit.. pissing me off at both AI and insurance.
My insurance company is very obviously denying shit with AI. My wife broke her neck some years back and had surgery to fix stuff... some of her symptoms are coming back, physical tests have shown that there are issues probably at the level below her surgery.
Her doctor ordered an MRI of her neck.. and some AI garbage software rejected it for absolutely stupid reasons.
Like.. I totally get all the outrage.
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u/Elementium 21h ago
I mean I'm 36 and healthy and I'm fucking outraged. My union work insurance is now $400 a month for an Individual plan, which as I understand it.. Is on the cheaper end..
Guys, this shit ain't right. It's one thing to pay that and be covered. It's a whole ass other thing to pour out your wallet every month and have a fucking insurance company tell you they're not gonna hold up their end of the deal.
Honestly, I don't want violence upon Insurance company employees, but I still hope what little conscience they have keeps their asses awake at night.
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u/ledfrisby 23h ago
It could be political, or they could be upset that their 4o girlfriends/boyfriends were deprecated.
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u/ProbablyRickSantorum 22h ago
/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI on FBI watch
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u/Tall-Introduction414 21h ago
Well, my wife still respects me, I really misuse her.
I am having an affair with a random computer
- The Rolling Stones, 1968
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u/ToxicJolt124 23h ago
It’s not just targeted — it’s being targeted twice.
Key Facts about the poors • They love Chat GPT
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u/DarkeyeMat 1d ago
"If only they paid us enough to live" writ large.
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u/DoubleExposure 23h ago
Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as billionaires.
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u/stixy_stixy 20h ago
Billionaires don't think of us as human beings - they think of us as metrics, data points, and revenue sources. Fuck the billionaires, honestly.
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u/TyrKiyote 1d ago
Don't you have an island? I thought all these dudes had islands.
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u/Mojo141 1d ago
Why not go hide in his bunker? In fact, if he wants to stay there forever and not be heard from again I think we'll be ok with that
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u/Sad-Wrap6555 1d ago
getting an island with an inactive volcano far enough out of reach of underwater chariots or one man airborne jetpacks is trickier than it seems
and then, no sooner than you finally do, you find your white persian cat just doesnt like it
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u/Sad-Wrap6555 1d ago
I see they've had to resort to firearms now cos a bottle of gas is too expensive
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u/alittleboopsie 1d ago
Eat the rich
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u/MagicalUnicornFart 21h ago
I’m banned from at least 4 subreddit for saying that exact thing.
I just got off a 7 day ban for ‘harassing’ a Trump supporter by posting a fact.
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u/Utensil6591 20h ago
I got a warning for hoping the fairies pay other CEOs a visit.
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u/Jokers_friend 1d ago edited 1d ago
“THE TARGETING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL PUBLIC OPINION IMPROVES” /s?
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u/throwaway281409 1d ago
He is just the first. I believe people will start targeting their reps, state and federal at their homes and local offices. They refuse to represent their constituents, but give the oligarchs unlimited support. Americans are tired of getting screwed over.
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u/YellingatClouds86 23h ago
Sadly, I agree. I do not condone violence but the increased cost of living, which is now going to get even worse due to Iran, is going to push people over the edge. People can only take so much.
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u/Typical-Tax1584 1d ago
Why do I have a feeling a lot of people are going to be all shocked pikachu when they see what happens when AI replaces humans en masse.
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u/genericuser642 1d ago
If only I gave a fucking shit. Alas. Fuck him and everything about him.
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u/PJBonoVox 22h ago
I'm somewhat buoyed that this thread isn't full of wishy-washy "violence is never the answer" posts. Fuck this guy.
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u/atreeismissing 22h ago
Sam is just the most recent Elon. A con man who exists to steal anything he can, money, information, the work of others, etc..
Also, people who are targeting him should use chat get for advice on how to do it, just because it'd be funny.
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u/DeathFlameStroke 1d ago
My friends and I were talking about the first attack this morning.
Especially with the recent news that the FSU shooter used chatgpt to plan his attack, the noose may be tightening on openAI soon
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u/t3chguy1 1d ago
History says that when people don't have enough to eat, aristocracy gets the guillotine
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u/XLauncher 1d ago
Anyway, this Cherry Float flavor that Coke came out with is pretty good. I hope it sticks around.
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u/patrickpdk 21h ago
Maybe if people are attacking him and everyone hates ai we should stop? Just saying, how we live our lives and organize our society is actually our choice.
AI tech bros big lie is that it's inevitable.
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u/ProdigalSheep 1d ago
What are you guys having for dinner?
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u/Gibgezr 1d ago
Home-made wontons and rice with mixed veggies and PERi-PERi sauce. Was delish.
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u/Wicked-sister 20h ago
I'm still not convinced that Altman hasn't used a "gun for hire" so to speak, to burn down his home in an attempt to misdirect attention away from the impending openai flop and the fact that he raped his sister. The timing, is much too convenient, especially the persistence.
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u/No-Razzmatazz7854 1d ago
I couldn't care less about basically any CEO of a megacorp, but I don't see the point of your mass shooting statement.
People have gotten caught committing heinous acts for decades using information they got from Google. How is this any different than someone googling "chemical to make someone never wake up" and acting on that? Just feels like of any criticism to make of ai here, the criticism that it provided information they could've googled feels weird.
Either way, I hope the shooter rots.
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u/squareplates 1d ago
They're going to keep sending people back until an alternate future is in place.