They don't have intelligence, they have spicy AutoCorrect
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Exactly, I see people freaking out about this tech replacing them. It's not gonna happen, not with OpenAI's tech anyway. They don't have intelligence to sell. They have LLM's that are good at tricking people who don't know better into thinking it's inteligant. LLM's can't think and they can't reason.
I think the worry of large layoffs and instability while idiots try to use AI instead of people is founded even if it’ll end in disaster.
my favorite part of this is that after decades of sci-fi dystopias based on fear of evil AI overlords that destroy the Earth, in reality we're creating a dystopia where we destroy the Earth to build a bunch of shitty plagiarism bots and treat them like they're AI overlords.
I'm not worried about this tech replacing people, I'm worried about the fact that people are actively losing neural elasticity from using LLMs to think for them.
It’s so useless for niche topics it’s not even funny… which is the only thing I’d ever want actual AI for in the first place.
so... even if it's not complete AGI, it's still extremely helpful for many industries, and extremely disruptive. There are long ways to go with it, but even these intermediate products are massive.
Having said that, it's also in a bubble or the peak of the hype cycle. That doesn't mean it's nothing though. It will cause massive upheaval.
So they stole the data to create these abominations and now they want to sell it back to everyone. Does no one see the fucking hypocrisy?
they're pretty up front about it. They want to gatekeep knowledge so they can monetize it and control the labor.
Impossible. It doesn’t require any local infrastructure, so there’s no inherent lock-in like you see with utilities.
Utterly delusional CEO.
Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.
Less "we are a utility" and more "we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it's used"
It's wild how almost everything in the world is comic book evil from like a really poorly written comic.
You'd have to have intelligence to sell first... you dollar store con man
This man is in the top 10 of my "I hope they get Luigi'd" list
Great. Sabotage the collective intelligence of humanity so they can sell it back to us. Seems like either the bubble pops or we do.
Classsic "Nestle water stealing in Africa" strategy
Are you sure you have enough to spare Sam? Har har har.
Someone else is going to giveaway free intelligence, only so they can collect our data. It has happened before.
Honestly my thoughts on how I'd actually use AI... versus OpenAI's are exactly the opposite. Honestly I could see a world where a lot of people get an on site LLM server. Plug it in etc... I could actually see that as useful, IE keep it air gapped, and then you can train it off of your e-mails, your house etc..., not trust everything to some outside company. From what I'm gathering from the chinese open source models that sounds very viable.
Of course the ultimate annoyance is, the datacenter surge is actually taking compute out of regular price ranges.
Actually annoyingly makes me think of the point in time that electricity itself was at this crossroads, where eddison wanted every house to have a DC generator, while Tesla was pushing for AC transmission to send current from centralized locations
Bro you can't even run a publicly traded company. Don't even say the word "utility". Fuck outta here.
“Critics”
Honestly, it’s rather remarkable how far up his own ass Altman is. In any other context, he’d be considered an expert contortionist.
It's VERY aggravating to use.
"No I said DON'T include this information I've told you three times no."
"Did I ask for your speculation/discussion?"
"No, I said CITE ONLINE SOURCES, not just make them up!"
"NONE OF YOUR EXTERNAL LINKS WORK!!"
...half an hour later you realise the first answer is probably the best you're going to get, and you'll still need to fact check it before using it.
If you’re gonna be dumb you better ~~be tough~~ have a lot of tokens
But I don't need it, and most people also don't need it. I've never spent any money on AI and I still don't talk to any inanimate objects.
But they need our utilities, all of them. So they want to get ahead of the game and take over that side of government now.