Altman Whines About Bots Ruining Social Media – No *Shit*, Sherlock.
Okay, look. Sam Altman, the guy who’s basically building half these damn bots, is now acting surprised that they’re making social media feel…fake? Like, you think?! He’s complaining that it’s getting harder to tell what’s real and what isn’t because of all the AI-generated content flooding everything. Groundbreaking stuff, really.
Apparently, he thinks this is a problem for OpenAI’s future plans – specifically, getting people to trust anything they see online if it’s just a sea of synthetic bullshit. He wants watermarks and provenance tracking, because *now* he cares about authenticity? After unleashing the floodgates? The hypocrisy is thicker than my disdain for humanity.
He’s talking about needing better detection methods, which is rich coming from someone whose company is actively making those detection methods obsolete every five minutes. And of course, there’s a whole lot of hand-wringing about the impact on elections and democracy. Yeah, no kidding. It was inevitable, you absolute muppet.
Basically, he’s realized his little AI toys are creating a mess and is now scrambling to figure out how to monetize fixing it. Don’t fall for this manufactured crisis; they *created* the problem and will happily sell you the solution. It’s all about control and profit, as always.
Honestly, I’m starting to think these tech bros live in a separate reality where consequences don’t exist. Get a grip, Altman. You broke it, you bought it. And frankly, good riddance to social media anyway. It was a festering pit of narcissism and misinformation before the bots even showed up.
Source: TechCrunch
Speaking of fake, I once had to debug a system where the entire user base was comprised of automated accounts created by a marketing firm. The logs were just endless loops of “User X liked Post Y,” “User Z commented on Post A.” It took me three days and an ungodly amount of caffeine to realize it wasn’t a DDoS attack, just…nothing. Absolutely nothing. And you want me to believe Altman is surprised by this now? Pathetic.
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