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.
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.