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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 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"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.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 2 points 6 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!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 6 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.

[–] Modva@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Ubi is meant to provide people with basic survivability in an increasingly automated world.

I cannot imagine a worse idea than putting basic survivability in the hands of a shareholder bound corporation.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 0 points 6 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 1 points 6 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 0 points 6 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

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait for the mental gymnastics forthcoming about water and energy use.

[–] loobkoob@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, they won't be issues. Well be drinking Compute straight from the can, and all our appliances will run on direct Compute inputs. You'll get home from your job earning 10 Compute/hr at the Compute factory, pay the standard 120 Compute charge to unlock your front door, hop onto your Compute Generation Dynamo for an hour to power the oven, and then settle down on the sofa for the evening to see what's on Soravision - discounted to 7 Compute/hr for GPT+ subscribers.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 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?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sam Altman is trying to equate compute time with value but fails to see that value can be traded for goods and necessities. Wtf a lumberjack, carpenter, mechanic, plumber, steel worker going to do with compute?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

This is Sam "WorldCoin" Altman we're talking about, I'm sure he assumes they can mine crypto with it.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 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 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Just wait til they figure out what number comes after 7. IOS is up to like what, 20? There's a lot of numbers they have to learn before they can compete with the big boys.

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

The greatest version number war of our age is between Chrome and Firefox, nowadays both of which get a major version bump around once a month. Firefox is on 125 and Chrome is on 124.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 months ago

Seems ridiculous since a full version updates used to mean something