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Thank you sir, I didn’t know the way to fix ailing welfare states was to make ChatGPT available to all.

It is truly the ultimate technofix.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"ChatGPT 7, please make me a sandwich, I'm hungry."

As an AI language model, I cannot make a sandwich or any food for you.

However, because you have indicated that you are broke af, which is illegal in the State of Missouri, this conversation and your IP address has been reported to the state police.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

What you get is not dollars, but like productivity.

Interesting. Interesting theory Altman.

What if the dollars went to the people who generated that productivity, perhaps?

[–] Jerkface 25 points 5 months ago

What if we had something to represent that productivity? Like, pieces of paper in various denominations. You could just trade them for whatever goods or services you needed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And remove those dollars from those who have the most of them?! What are you, actually crazy?! You’re clearly crazy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Clearly the dollars should go to the people who tell others what to do, and thus stand at the base of increasing productivity, how else would the plebs know what to do. A telling others what to do economy, or perhaps if you will a command economy.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I love the way these idiots keep incrementing the number on their ChatGPT fantasy as if it's a sufficient image of the future and it's going to get everyone on board. Complete failure of imagination, don't try to picture any actual use for it or anything, just make it... more.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"I know not with what technology GPT-6 will be built, but GPT-7 will be built with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein probably

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

@200fifty @Amoeba_Girl "GPT-11 will be built entirely out of sound waves from the sustain" - Nigel Tufnel, probably

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People without an imagination trying to imagine what a prosthetic imagination would look like

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

That’s also why they get so excited about the current chatbots.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Just wait til they figure out what number comes after 7. IOS is up to like what, 20? There's a lot of numbers they have to learn before they can compete with the big boys.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The greatest version number war of our age is between Chrome and Firefox, nowadays both of which get a major version bump around once a month. Firefox is on 125 and Chrome is on 124.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seems ridiculous since a full version updates used to mean something

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[–] ChicoSuave 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sam Altman is trying to equate compute time with value but fails to see that value can be traded for goods and necessities. Wtf a lumberjack, carpenter, mechanic, plumber, steel worker going to do with compute?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

This is Sam "WorldCoin" Altman we're talking about, I'm sure he assumes they can mine crypto with it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instead of Universal Basic Income, everyone should be given a small stipend to pay tribute to I, Sailor Sega Saturn. I demand tribute!

[–] Jerkface 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

セガサターン、しろ!

[–] Modva 34 points 5 months ago

Ubi is meant to provide people with basic survivability in an increasingly automated world.

I cannot imagine a worse idea than putting basic survivability in the hands of a shareholder bound corporation.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait for the mental gymnastics forthcoming about water and energy use.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Oh, they won't be issues. Well be drinking Compute straight from the can, and all our appliances will run on direct Compute inputs. You'll get home from your job earning 10 Compute/hr at the Compute factory, pay the standard 120 Compute charge to unlock your front door, hop onto your Compute Generation Dynamo for an hour to power the oven, and then settle down on the sofa for the evening to see what's on Soravision - discounted to 7 Compute/hr for GPT+ subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hasn't there been internal email and chat logs leaked showing that he knows he's completely full of shit and just trying to make the most fucking money at any cost?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

I'm not aware of any, got a source?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

That's convicted fraudster sam, different sam. Easy mistake, you can usually tell them apart by the hair.

[–] antidote101 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Turns out my slice of the "compute" is worthless and his is worth billions.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How long until Sam Altman says that Social Security checks should go straight to him ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Likely already happened years ago, but hasn’t been made public yet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

so when you can't get the retail and/or enterprise markets to give you enough money to get dem gainz you were hoping for on your grift, ah yes naturally it should be government money that bails you out. got it.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 12 points 5 months ago

Hey it worked for that other fascist guy

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Is this the guy that kindly asked for 7 trillion? Of course he doesn't want UBI, because he wants to vacuum up all the money to dump it in his robot girlfriend.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they're hooked you can do whatever you want because they can't leave.

Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's more insidious: it's not giving it away. it's subverting the "hmm UBI is good actually" argument and saying that people should receive compute instead of money, with a quiet "oh and naturally someone will have to pay us for providing them that compute"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

not that I'd bet against them pulling a lock-in move down the line as well (or upsells or any number of other exploitation plays), mind you

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

I'm gonna use my compute to break the encrypting that guarantees that everybody gets an equal slice an then the compute is all mine! MINE!!! My next step is going to be autotuning a proper evil villain laugh.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

So trickle down AI?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Is this the onion or

[–] eran_morad 13 points 5 months ago

Bitch, please.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I thought Thatcher on Acid was a band from the 80s, not the EAies' approach to economic policy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Is he trying to reframe the concept of a free trial as if it's some altruistic thing?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

personally, I'm in favor of it. imagine all the use cases. shouldn't take long

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Odd take, but if we zoom out,...

access to internet, and functioning computing is increasingly important for everyone. It obviously doesn't rank about healthcare, safe housing, and foundational income.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

Extremely quotable and vastly applicable.

This post may be the epitaph of our civilization.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Instead of Universal Basic Compute, where everyone gets a slice of GPT7’s compute and is about as useful to the average person as a waterproof mop, there should be Universal Basic Income, where everyone gets a guaranteed stipend so they aren’t required to work in order to have a quality existence, and would, to the average person, be about as useful as clean air.

[–] Dkarma 6 points 5 months ago

Let me sell mine for bread/rent

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