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[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sam Altman's job is to hype GPT-5 so the VCs will still put up with him burning probably the biggest pile of money anyone has ever burned. He's probably damaged the internet and the environment more than any single individual ever, terrorized people about their jobs for years. And he almost certainly knows it's all bullshit, making him a fraud. In a just world, he would be in prison when this is all over. He would almost certainly face the death penalty in China.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

He would almost certainly face the death penalty in China.

Lol

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

He would almost certainly face the death penalty in China.

Jack Ma, famously not executed, does similar things with Qwen and Alibaba in general.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I would be perfectly fine with Sam Altman being sent to a reeducation camp.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Nah, China only busts out capital punishment for these 46 crimes. Being a grifter is notably not on the list.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

excuse me, fucking robbery is on this list?

Theres a section for it called CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY lmfao

Such a socialist death penalty law

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Only thing I have to say is that some sources are saying that "robbery" is different from "theft" in that it involves the use of force and/or threats of force.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Abused his sister too btw. Feel like that needs to be talked about more. He’s a grade A piece of shit

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

damaged... the environment more than any single individual ever

Still crypto by orders of magnitude. AI doesn't even measure.

For example, google data centres used 30 twh in the last year, with crypto using more like 170 twh.

It's not possible to figure out chatgpt's usage because all the data is bad, but it's still relatively small compared to crypto.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

A lot of people contributed to those crypto numbers. The AI models run in special built data centers. Some have their own generators because the power usage is so high.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I don't think there are any specific power plants for AI built yet and crypto mining market concentration is very high, so ultimately not that many people.

OpenAI appears to operate what is described as the world's largest single data center building, with an IT load capacity of around 300 MW and a maximum power capacity of approximately 500 MW. This facility includes 210 air-cooled substations and a massive on-site electrical substation, which further highlights its immense scale. A second identical building is already under construction on the same site as of January 2025. When completed, this expansion will bring the total capacity of the campus to around a gigawatt, a record.

So this largest one would take 4.5 twh a year, or 3 percent of current estimated crypto usage. With the expansion, 9 twh or 6 percent of estimated crypto usage.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

He's probably damaged . . . the environment more than any single individual ever

JD Rockefeller, Rex Tillerson, Lee Raymond

Truman, LBJ

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