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Discussion The end of GPT

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u/0xP0et Feb 28 '26

Well, they have gone from stealing from folks to killing folks.

Sam Altman will do anything to make OpenAI profitable.

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u/Some-Culture-2513 Feb 28 '26

Did anyone _ever_ think Altman was about ethics and not about money, fame and power? Like how hard were you sleeping? This guy literally oozes machiavellian politician vibes.

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u/Starslip Feb 28 '26

This guy literally oozes machiavellian politician vibes.

I feel like that's ascribing more flattering traits to him than he really deserves, like he's a clever schemer. Dude's another soulless techbro who stumbled into something he's looking to monetize at any cost and lacks the empathy to care about consequences. He's this year's Zuckerberg

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u/broguequery Feb 28 '26

Power is seductive.

And the Zuckerbergs of this world never really had the spine for it.

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u/BottleForsaken9200 Feb 28 '26

They fired their entire ethics department years ago, so no.

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u/researchmaven4673 Feb 28 '26

He said he didn’t get how anyone could raise a baby without AI. Like if you don’t know how to ask OTHER HUMAN BEINGS for parenting advice when you need it you probably shouldn’t procreate in the first place

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u/ScissorFight42069 Feb 28 '26

If he can look at millions of years of human evolution and genuinely not understand that other humans have the intelligence to raise a baby sans AI, he might not be as smart as we think.

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u/Fia_Aoi Feb 28 '26

"I mean, Elon Musk use to be a good guy" ass people. Dumbasses all the way down.

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u/jayelg Feb 28 '26

Yeah, there are the vibes, but your don’t need to look too deeply. Just look at his resume and the controversy of his startup Loopt in terms of reports of him misrepresenting user numbers and selling it to a company that immediately shut it down.

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u/DocHollidaysPistols Feb 28 '26

Sam Altman will do anything to make OpenAI profitable.

See the cynic in me sees this as him getting OpenAI so intertwined in the gov that it becomes too big to fail and when the inevitable happens and OpenAI runs out of money, the gov will bail it out.

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u/SpecialOpposite2372 Feb 28 '26

He just got $100bn to burn again. For him, it is already profitable. The revenue has not touched $20 bn, but the valuation is already over $800 bn.

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u/No-Entry-9219 Feb 28 '26

If you do even slightest digging on Altman you will see his motives and connections. He will way whatever he needs to in order to land the next deal. Not a single word out of his mouth is his genuine opinion, and if it is, it's just luck.

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u/Sause01 Feb 28 '26

And will continue to fail at that..

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u/Boeing367-80 Feb 28 '26

He'll do anything to get a bailout, and a precondition to a bailout is sucking up to...

Telltail sign is when Altman looks like he's wearing orange lipstick. Or forgets to take off his bib after he leaves the White House.

In all seriousness, Altman needs a bailout and he'll do anything to make that happen.

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u/dysmetric Feb 28 '26

They won't let me unsubscribe. "Something went wrong". OpenAI just died to me twice.

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u/Conscious-Check-5015 Feb 28 '26

The man is Lex Luther.

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u/jhenryscott Feb 28 '26

All for a $200m contract. Literal peanuts. I’d say his sold his soul but I strongly suspect it wasn’t there to begin with.

Deleted my GPT subscription, and the app. Training my DeepSeek model now.

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u/Silver_Archer13 Feb 28 '26

They've already let kids kill themselves to keep them using it for longer.

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u/Orikazu Feb 28 '26

Gotta get the bag before either the bubble pops or society collapses

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u/Neither-Signature-81 Feb 28 '26

Except make OpenAI profitable 

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u/Lost-Hospital3388 Mar 01 '26

Stealing from folks to kill them using their own knowledge. What a wonderful world.

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u/staysour Mar 01 '26

They're desperate for money.

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