Every "Sam Altman said..." headline can be summed up as:
"Manipulative liar says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear."
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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"Tech crypto grifter says thing to grift people with crypto, tech or both. More at 11"
Although i cant imagin any sign of a pullback would be good for any of the companies in the AI bubble. While probably not important on the specifics of what he is saying it is a "we should slow down" which the market aint gonna like. No breaks on this gravy train Sammy boy!
He is just like Elon Musk a tech bro con man that has the backing of some of the richest companies and people in the world.
...to attract more inversement.
Likely translation: scaling their models is hitting diminishing returns, while the business world is slowly realizing the math ain't mathing and they're not suddenly 10x more efficient and profitable than before LLM adoption.
So Sammy and the others need a plausible cover story why capabilities aren't evolving at break neck speed anymore, to prevent their beautiful bubbly bubble from crashing down on them
Let's hope they get the Enron treatment for their actions
Exactly. Who tf actually believes this crap?
Feds made them be the fall guy though. Data centers are new infrastructure for the government to use. That's the main reason for all this ai bullshit. Chapgpt and this consumer grade bullshit is the unplugged video game controller they gave us to makes us feel special and a part of something while THEY play "The Game".
An expansion of the above; https://reddthat.com/comment/28125951
Sadly it's way more banal and boring than that.
while THEY play "The Game"
And I just lost it.
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Or they have hit a wall.
Yeah, we've definitely been seeing diminishing returns with the latest frontier models. I think that's why when GLM and Kimi come in at 1/5 the price of Opus but are just as good, or when Deepseek comes in at 1/10 the price and is catching up quickly, they have to worry. There may be nowhere for them to go.
I'd like to hit his head against a wall, multiple times.
He should accelerate himself off a cliff.
Company can't keep up with competitors, claims it is for altruism
Sam is a con man, why is anyone listening to him.
because of near-constant media stories like this one
You can tell when Altman is lying by noticing that his mouth is open.
Sufficient but unnecessary imo.
Sometimes he lies in print, tbd whether he talks out the words when he types.
Stop paying attention to this lying fuckwad.
Way to get ahead of the slowdown Sam. Control the narrative. You "chose" to scale back.
"Actually we almost made the A.I. too good and it scared me cuz of how good it was"
No he isn't, the only reason Sam Altman would hit the breaks is if he was falling behind and needed to catch up.
*brakes
*brayeighechs
He wants regulations to kill the competition. Open source is gonna get fucked in the coming months. The whole media campaign has been specifically for this.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I keep seeing open source and open weight when talking about LLMs. Are these two terms interchangeable? If not, what do they mean and which is correct?
Open weight is like getting a compiled binary with no source code. Without the training data and pipeline code, once the original developer stops releasing new versions, it’ll be difficult for the community to pick up and keep going.
For example, if Alibaba decides to only release trillion parameter models from now on, Qwen 3.6 may be the most intelligent Qwen model that will ever run on consumer hardware.
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Why do we care that some greedy bastard is doing a fake apology tour?
Because he’s a greedy bastard with the ear of every head of state, standing at the top of a $1.6T pyramid scheme we’re all tangled up in.
We gotta stop worshipping these guys because they have power's ear. The people are way, way more important than lil' sammy whatsisname?
We need to scale AI development!
Openweight models start growing
No, not like that!
It's difficult to think of a more punchable face than Sam Altman's.
I dunno, Dario Amodei’s face is my personal choice.
my vote for punchable face is Jeff Bezos
There’s also one rich asshole called Larry Ellis
Well, you got me there.
LOL...those graphs didn't infinitely extrapolate Sam?
99% of failed companies are from graph extrapolation in board rooms.
I've just been reading the Wikipedia article about the huggingface intrusion, and it reminds me strongly of the descriptions of hacking in Neuromancer.
Thats why there are no smart locks in my house. Deadbolts and keys only.
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He can do what he wants - except closing Pandora's box. It stays open. The race is on, whether he participates or not.
Ahhh yes, decelerate into the singularity. We wouldnt wanna ram it full speed, it might break!
Meanwhile, me still using GPT 4 as: "Rephrase: " CTRL+v
Nvidia is backing the wrong horse
I’d be ok with him rapidly “decelerating” at end of a long fall…
BREAKING: A Billionaire Said Some Bullshit.
I know downvotes are generally frowned upon here... But c'mon. This ain't what we should be hyping up attention for.
how much hype are you going to milk from something that could have been stopped with ctrl c
Ctrl-C doesn’t get him the big valuations though. Gotta follow the money.
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