So I never hear anyone talk about this, but we know how screwed Sam Altman’s gonna be when the AI bubble pops right?
He has been the very public face of this AI rush. Even laymen know about ChatGPT. I still hear a gas station pump ad for a travel app advertising that they use ChatGPT, so the most tech illiterate will at least hear it’s name.
OpenAI has nothing to fall back to. The other software companies have an empire to pivot back to; Nvidia’s been selling the shovels of this gold rush; Elon is a cockroach so he’ll manage somehow.
And most damningly, I think he believes his own hype. I think he’s honestly a schmuck who thinks if he doubles down to create God In A Box™ that all the worlds problems, especially his, will be solved. He’s Sam Bankman-fried 2.0.
When this bubble collapses 401k’s will crash and we’ll have a recession at best. The other companies will need a fall guy for why they took part in this ponzi scheme. And it will get political, so Trump will need a fall guy to explain why everyone’s retirement vanishing isn’t his fault.
It just seems so glaringly obvious that Sam Altman is going to be the biggest scapegoat of the 21st century. He will be targeted worse than Sam Bankman-fried and Mike Pence combined.
Does anyone else see this or am I acting crazy?
Edit: Just to be explicit I’m not trying to drum up sympathy for him, he deserves none. It’s more like this is my prediction for an upcoming trainwreck.
Sam Altman is a CEO. What you’ve written is his job description. Hype the stock, take the fall. Only in his case, the “fall” will be to having to cry himself to sleep on top of millions of dollars each night.
He’s not going to be charged with a crime because this is how American big business operates these days. He doing the task he was hired for. If anyone threatened him, 10,000 “millionaire defenders” will pour out of their trailers and blame Obama instead.
‘Screwed’ dude is going to walk out of this with a golden parachute and go live at his mansion
When have the global pedo elite ever faced consequences?
He’s gonna have the least amount of escape routes compared to the other criminals in his group, that being the tech giants and the government. I wouldn’t be surprised if he finds a way to weasel out of this, it just reminds me a lot of the Sam Bankman-fried stuff but worse.
Sorry man, 0 sympathy, if he wanted to ascend higher in the ranks of the pedo cabal he should have hustled harder, skipped the Starbucks and avocado toast
Even if he indulged in some Zurich healthcare today he’d have lived a more comfortable life than all the workers he exploited to get where he is
Oh I have no sympathy for this man either, he’s a living testament of hubris, if he does get thrown under the bus he still did this to himself.
I think it’s worse because he almost seems normal, just way out of his depth
I don’t look at Musk or the Zucc and go ‘boy I’m just a couple bad business decisions from ending up like them’
According to some internet articles, Altman doesn’t even hold equity in the company. He just gets a regular salary. And dude has $2bn in his bank account from previous investments… So OpenAI “popping” shouldn’t directly affect his wealth. Just the reputation. And he’s gonna need a new hobby.
Nothing will happen to him, he will be millionaire if not billionaire like nothing happened to Adam Neumann and WeWork. To many banks and to many corporations have money there so they will cover it up like nothing happened. People in power never admit to mistakes.
Unless we make sure he doesn’t get away with his crimes, he’ll probably be a billionaire for the rest of his life.
Nvidia’s problem is that they’ve invested in a circular financing system for something that is going to devalue very quickly. Sure, they make an actual product, but the demand for those products is going to fall through the floor when the bubble pops.
You are telling me that Sam [Blank]man is a scapegoat? Say it ain’t so Sam Bankman-Fried!
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If the SEC still existed I think there could have been jail time involved for a number of CEOs. However the SEC has been gutted.
I feel it makes some sense honestly. The AI bubble I do think will cause a recession, and with the current climate in the US I do not think a major recession will be helpful if elites want to put out the fire. I thinknit could be possible that enough unrest could cause them to sacrifice Altman to try to reduce unrest.
But that is assuming its enough to drive people to put enough pressure.
Sam Altman is a grifting scumbag who will still be a bazillionaire after the music stops.
At this point the mother of all scapegoats is probably Maduro - a literal bus driver who’s been kidnapped, tortured, and absurdly prosecuted for crimes committed by imperialism, prohibition, etc… And he’s being attacked by someone who’s an actual criminal, rapist, racist, imperialist, etc. openly trying to rob Venezuela.
