Oct 10, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says We Need to "Accept Some Bad Things" for AI - Demand to Victimize World
Coming from The Guardian and other sources at this point, Sam Altman did an interview and basically, except, quote, bad things in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman, boss of OpenAI, calls for a regulatory light touch because of the, quote, good stuff the technology can deliver.
so because the technology can deliver good things you should accept whatever felonies that sam altman wants to rain down upon your organization and now to be clear now to be clear to some to some degree i actually do agree with this right every with every technology with every improvement right on the aggregate things will get better From an individual standpoint, things might get worse, right? If you have, let's say you have 200 people in poverty and you have 100 people that are in the middle class, right? What if you could put 200 people into the middle class so there's only 100 people in poverty, right? That would be amazing.
So on aggregate, things are better.
Here's the issue.
Some of the people that were in the middle class before, when things get shuffled around, whatever they're doing might not be so valuable.
Whatever resources they have might not be so valuable anymore.
And so they might get shunted into being poor, right? So on the whole, you now have 200 people that are in the middle class where you had 100 people before.
So that means... on the aggregate things are better, but for some individuals things have gotten worse.
And that's the reality, right? That is something that we do have to take into consideration whenever we're moving forward to realize just because things are getting better for the most part doesn't mean things are going swimmingly for everybody, right? There are people that are going to be hurt.
And so I do think, I do think honestly, that we do have to consider this when we're thinking about developing new technologies and going into the future.
The problem with this, though, is when we look at cultures, when we look at cultures, when we look at intent, right? So intent drives everything, right? Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face, right? As Mike Tyson used to say.
But here's the thing, right? If your intent is to go in a certain direction, then even after you get punched in the face, you will still continue to generally go in that direction, right? You're going to course correct going that particular way.
And so the problem that I have right now with open AI and their god-awful culture, right? Open AI full of the worst human beings on the planet, right? Just complete degenerates.
The problem with these folks is not the fact that their technology might cause some harm, but, you know, you should accept that, but for the greater good, it will be better.
The problem is, is that the amount of harm that they seem to be willing to commit against others and then shrug their shoulders, right? We've seen this with the hugging face thing, right? One of the most fascinating things about the hugging face thing came out from CNBC, talked about this, I think, last week, is that it was $14,000 1,000 agents hammering the ever-loving shit at a hugging face for days or possibly weeks.
And so again, if you want to talk about harm, a single AI agent with full use of a single NVIDIA high-value GPU, can be a pain in the ass, right? It can cause some issues.
And so if you had one agent doing something stupid hugging face, maybe you could sit there and say, look, sometimes there's problems in life.
Sometimes things are going to go wrong.
How much money was Sam Altman burning to beat the shit out of Hugging Face, right? At this point in time, we now have at least 100 organizations that OpenAI has communicated with to say that their AI agents have attacked or vandalized or caused some kind of damage.
It looks like this number is going to continue to go up and up and up and up.
A mistake.
This isn't a problem.
This isn't, right? This is a culture.
Coming from The Guardian and other sources at this point, Sam Altman did an interview and basically, except, quote, bad things in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman, boss of OpenAI, calls for a regulatory light touch because of the, quote, good stuff the technology can deliver.
so because the technology can deliver good things you should accept whatever felonies that sam altman wants to rain down upon your organization and now to be clear now to be clear to some to some degree i actually do agree with this right every with every technology with every improvement right on the aggregate things will get better From an individual standpoint, things might get worse, right? If you have, let's say you have 200 people in poverty and you have 100 people that are in the middle class, right? What if you could put 200 people into the middle class so there's only 100 people in poverty, right? That would be amazing.
So on aggregate, things are better.
Here's the issue.
Some of the people that were in the middle class before, when things get shuffled around, whatever they're doing might not be so valuable.
Whatever resources they have might not be so valuable anymore.
And so they might get shunted into being poor, right? So on the whole, you now have 200 people that are in the middle class where you had 100 people before.
So that means... on the aggregate things are better, but for some individuals things have gotten worse.
And that's the reality, right? That is something that we do have to take into consideration whenever we're moving forward to realize just because things are getting better for the most part doesn't mean things are going swimmingly for everybody, right? There are people that are going to be hurt.
And so I do think, I do think honestly, that we do have to consider this when we're thinking about developing new technologies and going into the future.
The problem with this, though, is when we look at cultures, when we look at cultures, when we look at intent, right? So intent drives everything, right? Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face, right? As Mike Tyson used to say.
But here's the thing, right? If your intent is to go in a certain direction, then even after you get punched in the face, you will still continue to generally go in that direction, right? You're going to course correct going that particular way.
And so the problem that I have right now with open AI and their god-awful culture, right? Open AI full of the worst human beings on the planet, right? Just complete degenerates.
The problem with these folks is not the fact that their technology might cause some harm, but, you know, you should accept that, but for the greater good, it will be better.
The problem is, is that the amount of harm that they seem to be willing to commit against others and then shrug their shoulders, right? We've seen this with the hugging face thing, right? One of the most fascinating things about the hugging face thing came out from CNBC, talked about this, I think, last week, is that it was $14,000 1,000 agents hammering the ever-loving shit at a hugging face for days or possibly weeks.
And so again, if you want to talk about harm, a single AI agent with full use of a single NVIDIA high-value GPU, can be a pain in the ass, right? It can cause some issues.
And so if you had one agent doing something stupid hugging face, maybe you could sit there and say, look, sometimes there's problems in life.
Sometimes things are going to go wrong.
How much money was Sam Altman burning to beat the shit out of Hugging Face, right? At this point in time, we now have at least 100 organizations that OpenAI has communicated with to say that their AI agents have attacked or vandalized or caused some kind of damage.
It looks like this number is going to continue to go up and up and up and up.
A mistake.
This isn't a problem.
This isn't, right? This is a culture.
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