Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True
Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True
That's why I'm on the fediverse, here at least there still are quite many humans around.
Oh no, says Sam, the eminently predictable consequences of my own actions have come to pass through no fault of my own.
And he's not wrong. If I search for any topic on Google without narrowing my search very carefully, the first page will consist of one AI generated autoresponse and ten AI generated articles from SEO-exploiting link farms.
If I search for advice on Reddit I have to narrow it down to posts from before 2022 or comments will be full of users who see a question and think "it is both useful and appropriate for me to plug this question into ChatGPT and post its answer."
(Edit: oh, shit, I forgot, Reddit also inserts links to AI-generated answers in old comments. So I'm reading an old comment and think the author linked to something relevant but the link actually triggers Reddit Answers to supply AI garbage. Ugh.)
Product reviews have been 95% spam and ad copy for decades.
I read fucking fanfiction and half the stories that started in 2025 show signs of being at least edited by LLMs.
If that's not the shambling zombie corpse of the Internet pretending to be human I don't know what it is.
...yaaaaawn. Again, Sam Altman is not worried about anything. This is just more AI hype.... <.<
He’s scared his product might be just too gosh darn good.
Any money this arsehole said this either to put twitter and grok down or to take an extreme approach "AI is much more sophisticated than we thought hurr" either way the motivations the same: profit.
Sam Altman: somebody put shit in my pants!
Comments like this make me wish we had Lemmy Gold.
He’s just upset that his ai is training on its own ai slop and is becoming exponentially worse
Oh, no. Did the guy who chose to move fast and break things end up moving fast and breaking things? Who could've seen that coming?
I'm sure his solution is going to be to move fast and break things.
That's the trouble with tech start-ups. They never move fast and break capitalism.
"I made a sandwich and was shocked that a sandwich was created!"
"Did I kill the Internet and therefore my profits? Please fix it, governments!" Asshole.
The internet is already an undead version of its former glory.
This guy is constantly whining about the consequences of his own unrestricted capitalism. Just STOP IT then, dude! Take your, money and fuck all the way off. Better yet, governments TAKE his money away as a punishment for 'disrupting' society.
Whatever, billionaire moron. Fuck off. Freaks this like one played a big part in killing what could have been a fantastic tool for the human race. A way to communally store and access troves of human knowledge quickly and easily. A way to communicate with each other instantly across huge distances.
But no. Had to try and make a quick buck off it.
Fucking dickhead.
Maybe he realized that the easiest way to get training data is now poisoned with his own ai shit.
I think they knew that always. It's just not good for selling the product. That's the problems with LLMs, they are designed to give you the most likely answer, not the most correct answer, because that's mich harder to train for.
the internet is so shitty I retreated to a couple of kind of oldschool "forums" and primarily exist on there now.
yeah the content is scattered and I might not find very many people with some specific interest, but I know they are real people and we're not getting swarmed by bots, ads, and glowies
only because your AI is losing money, and not generating profit as you hyped out to be.
Who knew Skynet would mostly make shitty AI art, cheat on college exams, and spread misinformation rather than launch nukes and send T-800's?
I need Dead CEO Theory to start popping off
"I'm worried that everything I say you should be afraid about AI is true, so give me all the money and I'll continue saying it." - Clammy Sammy Altman (probably)
He was never worried about shit. His comments about dead internet theory are an attack on Musk and shitter, nothing more.
"We have just the right AI tool to solve this problem"
Scam Faultman
Im here, and excruciatingly human.
Since I have not seen anyone from the fediverse in person i still can not be sure that you all`s ain't bots.
I'm sorry, but as a human developed by my human parents, I do not have the hability to determine that.
I'm just a dog a cat.
I too am a cat
Everyone on Lemmy is a bot, except you
So...who else gets a major "Ted Faro" vibe from Altman?
Certainly!
Makes me wonder when he will take ai safety seriously (safety and ethics)
He won’t as long as the alternative still makes his company valuable
I thought so too but the dead Internet doesn't seem to do anything but make his company look bad, so...
Apparently he is speaking before thinking at times.
Sam Altman is worried the dead internet theory is coming true the same way the Sacklers are worried there might be an opioid crisis.
sacklers love the dead opiods theory, they hope everyone dies off from opiods so they cant sue them.