Two AI Snake Oil Salesmen Walk Into a Bar…

So these two wankers, Altman and Amodei, decided to grace India’s AI summit with their collective presence—the dynamic duo of “move fast and break shit” versus “move slightly slower and break shit more responsibly.” What a fucking treat. According to the article, they shared a “moment of awkwardness” on stage. No shit. When you’ve got one guy who’s sold his soul to Microsoft and another who thinks he’s the messiah of “constitutional AI,” the tension’s thicker than the curry at a budget tech conference.

Apparently, the whole circus kicked off when someone from the Indian government had the audacity to ask them actual questions about data sovereignty and why these American tech bros think they can hoover up the entire subcontinent’s data to train their overpriced autocorrect machines. Altman, being the good little corporate parrot he is, started blathering about “partnerships” and “enabling the ecosystem”—standard MBA wank-speak for “we’re going to monetize the fuck out of your digital heritage.”

Then Amodei, in his holier-than-thou voice, started pontificating about “AI safety” and “responsible development,” which is rich coming from a guy whose company is just as desperate to shovel GPUs into their datacenters as anyone else. The awkwardness peaked when they both realized they’d been given the same talking points memo but had interpreted “bullshit the locals” in slightly different ways. The silence was apparently so painful you could see the moderator mentally updating their LinkedIn to “open to work.”

The best bit? Both of them kept name-dropping their “commitment to India” while simultaneously lobbying behind closed doors to make sure Indian regulators don’t actually pass any laws that might—God forbid—cost them money or require them to share their precious training data. It’s the same old colonial playbook, just with more GPUs and fewer actual cannons.

By the end, the audience of local developers and startups looked about as thrilled as users do when I tell them their password expired and yes, they do need to come to the server room in person to reset it. The whole thing was a masterclass in how to patronize 1.4 billion people while pretending you’re doing them a favor.

Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit

Speaking of awkward moments, I once had a middle manager who insisted on “collaborative IT decision-making.” Invited the whole department to vote on our firewall rules. I let it run for exactly 17 minutes—just long enough for him to feel important—before I remotely disabled the Wi-Fi, blamed it on “democratic overload,” and implemented my original config while they were all rebooting their routers. The twat thanked me for “resolving the issue.”

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