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Thank you sir, I didn’t know the way to fix ailing welfare states was to make ChatGPT available to all.

It is truly the ultimate technofix.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

"ChatGPT 7, please make me a sandwich, I'm hungry."

As an AI language model, I cannot make a sandwich or any food for you.

However, because you have indicated that you are broke af, which is illegal in the State of Missouri, this conversation and your IP address has been reported to the state police.

[–] sexy_peach 3 points 5 months ago
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I was going to make this very joke before I saw this.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

I love the way these idiots keep incrementing the number on their ChatGPT fantasy as if it's a sufficient image of the future and it's going to get everyone on board. Complete failure of imagination, don't try to picture any actual use for it or anything, just make it... more.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"I know not with what technology GPT-6 will be built, but GPT-7 will be built with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein probably

[–] carlitoscohones@mas.to 10 points 5 months ago

@200fifty @Amoeba_Girl "GPT-11 will be built entirely out of sound waves from the sustain" - Nigel Tufnel, probably

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

With a face drawn on it

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People without an imagination trying to imagine what a prosthetic imagination would look like

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

That’s also why they get so excited about the current chatbots.

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 25 points 5 months ago

Instead of Universal Basic Income, everyone should be given a small stipend to pay tribute to I, Sailor Sega Saturn. I demand tribute!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hasn't there been internal email and chat logs leaked showing that he knows he's completely full of shit and just trying to make the most fucking money at any cost?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

I'm not aware of any, got a source?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

That's convicted fraudster sam, different sam. Easy mistake, you can usually tell them apart by the hair.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they're hooked you can do whatever you want because they can't leave.

Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's more insidious: it's not giving it away. it's subverting the "hmm UBI is good actually" argument and saying that people should receive compute instead of money, with a quiet "oh and naturally someone will have to pay us for providing them that compute"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

not that I'd bet against them pulling a lock-in move down the line as well (or upsells or any number of other exploitation plays), mind you

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How long until Sam Altman says that Social Security checks should go straight to him ?

[–] don@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Likely already happened years ago, but hasn’t been made public yet.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

so when you can't get the retail and/or enterprise markets to give you enough money to get dem gainz you were hoping for on your grift, ah yes naturally it should be government money that bails you out. got it.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

I'm gonna use my compute to break the encrypting that guarantees that everybody gets an equal slice an then the compute is all mine! MINE!!! My next step is going to be autotuning a proper evil villain laugh.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Is this the guy that kindly asked for 7 trillion? Of course he doesn't want UBI, because he wants to vacuum up all the money to dump it in his robot girlfriend.

[–] maol@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

I thought Thatcher on Acid was a band from the 80s, not the EAies' approach to economic policy

[–] gregdaynes@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago

So trickle down AI?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Odd take, but if we zoom out,...

access to internet, and functioning computing is increasingly important for everyone. It obviously doesn't rank about healthcare, safe housing, and foundational income.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

Extremely quotable and vastly applicable.

This post may be the epitaph of our civilization.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm speaking for myself, not him. People need internet and such, but it's not the first thing on the list

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but has 'lack of compute' ever been an issue for people online? Really weird to do a 80/90's university style supercomputer computing time per department distribution style system in 2030.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Usable fibre broadband is part of the universal service obligation for British Telecom landlines now

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

Thanks Sam!

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 10 points 5 months ago

Is he trying to reframe the concept of a free trial as if it's some altruistic thing?

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Can I use it for groceries?

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

personally, I'm in favor of it. imagine all the use cases. shouldn't take long

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Is this the onion or

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago
[–] don@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Instead of Universal Basic Compute, where everyone gets a slice of GPT7’s compute and is about as useful to the average person as a waterproof mop, there should be Universal Basic Income, where everyone gets a guaranteed stipend so they aren’t required to work in order to have a quality existence, and would, to the average person, be about as useful as clean air.

[–] sexy_peach 3 points 5 months ago

unbelievable