Altman’s remarks in his tweet drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.
“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”
Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”
“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.
So, we’re just trafficking in misinformation now?
Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort
True
, Says Their Time Is Over
Complete fiction. Clickbait misinformation.
The tweet:
I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.
Thank you for getting us to this point.
These idiots want to replace technical workers when AI is more attuned to replacing a CEO at this point. We don’t need Sam anymore.
“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”
People have to understand that this is what’s behind all the giddiness and wild investing in AI - they are out of their minds at the prospect firing 90% of their human workforce, more if they possibly can. Nobody wants those disgusting humans hanging around, lazy, slow, eating, farting, gossipping, complaining, losers, no self-respecting Sociopathic Oligarch wants them around.
If they’re so enthusiastic to go to work every day, send them to the work camps, where they can be leased out to corporations as Federal 13th Amendment Work Slaves. They’ll be called 13s. In 10 years, if MAGA is still running the show, 13s will be the primary human workforce, for any jobs that can’t be done by AI or robotic. There will be a small contingent of privileged humans who will work supervisory positions, bossing around the 13s.
That’s fine, no need for billionaires either and those were mostly useless.
Didn’t he swindle an open source project that was managed by a non profit into a company that only benefits himself? I love how all the rich and powerful are just swindlers. It appears they have no bootstraps.
Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime.
Oh thank goodness, i was concerned he couldn’t look any more ridiculous.
This is all just PR to raise more capital for a failed business model.
Wow he really has lost his mind.
Remember kids. If no one has any income because their jobs were replaced. Who is going to buy the slop?
It’s just a form of marketing to convince investors the technology will be able to replace jobs, I don’t get why this is being upvoted.
Let’s see how well this one ages, shall we?
About as well as Devin taking all of our jobs (which I think was supposed to happen a while ago). How’s that one doing?
“On the menu we have a fine vintage Chatteau du spoiled milk from a very good year.”
This feels a lot like a ragebait article.
What did Altman actually tweet that caused the backlash? I can’t seem to find it while skimming, only the responses to it.
-edit- Found it
It is a lot less rage inducing than the article makes it out to be.
I mean I can see how that draws ire. His contribution doesn’t really line up with his benefits. This project started as an open source, with a non profit running it. Now it’s one of the biggest private companies in the world and threatening to replace a lot of jobs. So if you look at the context, he’s already forgetting how much hard work he stole to make himself obscenely rich and powerful!
I mean every obscenely rich and powerful person stole a lot of work from other people…otherwiese they wouldn’t be obscenely rich. So, he’s hasn’t forgotten, he isn’t and never was aware of how much he stole.
His tweet said he’s “already forgetting how much hard work was done”…. by humans! Implying that the AI is doing all the hard work now.
I didn’t see the “says their time is over” part anywhere that he allegedly said. Guy’s still a piece of shit, but not seeing anything out of line he said in this specific instance.
Yes, total ragebait. Thanks for linking to the actual source xit.
It is somewhat clickbait, it links to this shitter post Conman made, but i guess you can kinda extrapolate his idea behind it.
the funny thing is that by all accounts replacing programmers with AI leads to hiring programmers back to fix AI mess.
But do they want to come back ?
“more will come”. never underestimate hungry star eyed folks. Look at Grammarly - they’ve been throwing people on the streets for the last three years showing zero loyalty to longterm employees and then replacing them with cheaper newbies over and over. And that after hoarding literally any NLP talent to make competition non-existent - so for NLP folks in Ukraine it means they have nowhere to go outside of military sector which is its own can of worms. Meanwhile Grammarly just keeps on pivoting to AI coding then hiring folks to clean the mess to pivot again.
For double the salary probably, the problem is there’s always a line of people looking for work.
That’s why unions are important and for people to not be scabs
I am pro-union, but I won’t deny that’s utopic for now.
Unionizing people on your country? Feasible. But what then? Because with this AI race what they actually are doing is “ok, now I have a ‘bot’ that does a lot of your work, so I’m offering you half of your hourly rate. Oh, you don’t accept it? Ok, let’s substitute our whole mainland team for a remote one with people from LATAM/India/China for 1/3 of the hourly rate.”
This shit ain’t gonna end well in the long run.
It’s already not looking well. We’ve destroyed the United States, middle class and propped up all the middle classes of the countries you listed. I have no problem with the ladder, but I do have a problem with the former.
Same thing for translation. They replaced us with AI and ask us to proofread and correct the mess for 1/4 the price. I stopped my translation career over this.
No, they prefer their jobs at Costco and McDonalds
Workers thank capitalists for their “effort”, say their time is over
Stop paying attention to this man already.
Trump… Elon… This dick bag.
Remember when programmers were telling truck drivers to “learn to code bro” when they thought self-driving trucks were going to be a thing?
Learn to lay bricks, codebros!
Why are you still hiring programmers then?
