Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to sell intelligence like a utility
During a recent appearance at BlackRock in Washington, D.C., OpenAI’s Sam Altman, shared his vision for the future of AI. At one point saying, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
Altman was describing a world where AI becomes a foundational infrastructure, something woven into everyday life so deeply that consumers and businesses simply “plug into” it the same way they rely on electricity, Wi-Fi or running water.
They scraped the internet’s knowledge and want to sell it back to those who actually created it.
Rent-seeking has entirely replaced innovation in modern capitalism.
Imagine a world with no libraries, no internet search, no wiki… They turn it all off after gobbling it all up, just to sell it back, because they end up with all information, for sale.
Wiki’s and Libraries have never been profitable and always existed just outside the capitalists control. Or rather, tolerated. They may get hidden from mainstream view on commercial platforms, but they can’t fully kill them, only drive them underground. Even if they try that, the more people that know about them, the safer they get.
You don’t have to worry about that too much, the mighty chinese industrial economy will steamroll the american scam economy before they’re able to implement their plans worldwide. Now, we in western countries might end up trapped in a prison society where all information is controlled by LLM chatbots, but it won’t be the fate of the whole world.
He is enshittfying it before it has even taken off
My homelab say otherwise
Every capitalist is a conman.
I will not be buying intelligence from that weirdo lizard. Because I am unfortunately literate.
I was heartened by college graduates booing these assholes.
Literally the future capitalism has always wanted; all common resources seized from the public for the good of private equity.
Back in the day…
- “Google, what’s playing at the cinema this evening at 9PM?”. “The Amazing Spiderman”. In the near future…
- “Google, what’s playing at the cinema this evening at 9PM?”. “That’ll be $4.95.”.
It feels weird thinking of the amazing Spiderman as “back in the day” when I remember the Toby McGuire Spiderman films.
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ever since feudalism fell, dipshits all over the world have had one thing in mind: bring it back. now they’re almost there. and the peasants are all too ready to give it back.
Putting aside that what they sell is not even inteligence: if they are providing a utility, then let’s regulate them like a utility, e.g. electricity distribution
Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil is a cure for everything.
I’m not anti-AI, but anti whatever fresh hell they are unloading unto the masses. This is something that requires careful planning to ensure we don’t devastate resources or stall critical think skills and knowledge.
stall critical thinking skills and knowledge
That’s the point. They want people dumb so they can sell “intelligence” to people.
Hype first, tangible income stream last, and this isn’t it.
How did that grifter get the job in the first place.
Sounds familiar. Hype first, promise “next year” availability, deliver on promises never.
“Your car will be out working as a taxi while you sleep.”
Just one small problem, rent your car as a taxi to whom Elon? Fucking Batman??
Holy used condoms all over my car, Batman!!
To say nothing of the added wear and tear in general… Jesus.
Somehow that guy can make a call and raise a billion dollars or 10.
