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Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final (mastodon.online)
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[–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d rather pick someone who did something deserving of life in prison than someone who didn’t, but maybe that’s just me.

Also, Sam Altman has no equity in, and was only paid $73k by OpenAI last year. You can dislike him for the rumors surrounding his managerial style and whatnot, but it’s pretty clear he isn’t exploiting people to get shit rich like everyone else on this list.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I don't.

Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that's what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He's also a prepper which means he's a selfish cunt.

If he wasn't promoting AI and trying to sell it as the next best thing to sliced bread he'd just be a shitty rich prepper. Instead he is wasting time and resources on AI.

And my personal bias against crypto really lowers my "give a fuck" bar so while, again, what he did is bad I don't care if he defrauded a bunch of crypto cunts. Same as I don't care about people "loosing" their NFT's.