OpenAI CEO Wants To Make Humans Buy Intelligence Like A Utility, Infuriates The Public...

TL;DR

Sam Altman's vision of selling metered intelligence like water or electricity reveals his goal of privatizing human knowledge for corporate profit and control.

Key Points

• 1.Altman stated OpenAI's business model is "selling tokens" and envisions intelligence as a utility "like electricity or water" where "people buy it from us on a meter."
• 2.A post sharing his comments reached 21.1 million views with overwhelming negative responses, including a top comment with 131,000 likes summarizing: "We stole all your knowledge and art and now we're going to put a meter on it and sell it back to you."
• 3.Critics highlight OpenAI's origin story as a nonprofit with open-source intentions, which shifted to closed-source and for-profit — all while scraping the internet without permission to train its models.
• 4.A tech insider who knew Altman since Loopt warned developers never to use OpenAI's API, saying Altman studies users' inputs to steal innovations — comparing him to Zuckerberg and Gates.
• 5.Altman was nearly removed from OpenAI by its board for being "not consistently candid in his communications," meaning he repeatedly deceived the people responsible for overseeing him.
• 6.Studies show over-reliance on AI reduces critical thinking, raising concerns that if AI becomes the dominant way people access information, companies like OpenAI could effectively control how humanity thinks.
• 7.A BBC study found AI-generated information is wrong approximately 51% of the time, making widespread dependence on it especially dangerous alongside Altman's track record of self-serving decisions.