OpenAI still has $50 billion, about half of that in cash, because they keep fund raising. The game is keep extending the runway until early investors can cash out and leave someone else holding the bag.
He’s right. AI is a bubble and a grift based on the lie that it will take your job, which he knows is a lie (despite profiting from others like Altman and Amodei spouting that lie).
Are you okay? Do you support the war on drugs too and think that that lowest-rung enforcement is actually effective? Instead of whackamole vigilantism, how about a blanket ban on companies paying children to become brand ambassadors instead?
Mistaking structural factors, like the profit imperative amidst an enshittogenic regulatory environment, for moral failings is unhelpful. For-profit companies will do what they can get away with, which is why these lawsuits are so important.
And do you seriously think Valve doesn’t require discounts that are as deep or greater during its own seasonal sales? Did your brain really think “Hey, I saw a sale somewhere once!” and instantly conclude from it that you could somehow disprove an antitrust lawsuit based on internal communications from Valve employees doing exactly what they are accused of?
I do appreciate the dig at AI, but accelerating climate change and draining aquifers ain’t gonna help with your desert island bro