the damage is done. Why did they ever think it was a good idea to brag that they were going to destroy all middle/upper class jobs?
Class blindness. Their buddies all love the idea of showing pesky workers their place.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think its as big of a deal as its made out to be. They are human after all and have overestimated the capabilities of LLMs. What's more important is that this signals product market fit.
They are backpedaling because AI backlash is slowing down their data center builds.
Molotov bombing Altman's front gate did not help AI apocalypse hype either
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#33They both hired some good publicists who is advising that change your tone and messaging to get the public to like and trust the companies.
Initially the goal was to convince investors which is pretty much done and now its the retail/public that will value these companies once they IPO. Either way the job market is definitely impacted and is changing rapidly.
Will one of these companies be the first to hit 10 trillion valuation?
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#34the damage is done. Why did they ever think it was a good idea to brag that they were going to destroy all middle/upper class jobs?
Because that was the truth. Now they have learned they are going to have to lie to the people so the masses can be sleepwalked to the same eventuality.
I suppose we’ll see.
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#37OK, this is weird. The article says:
> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in an interview with Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn on Tuesday, said he was “pretty wrong” about AI’s economic impact—a reversal from his June 2025 warnings that entry-level roles were at serious risk.
But the link to the interview goes to this 2m11s YouTube video, and he doesn't use say anything of the sort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAhbsKZ-_bg
Here's a full MacWhisper transcript (easier to search than the YouTube one): https://gist.github.com/simonw/ba0fe174cb7306b74ddf08589a027...
UPDATE: It turns out the article was linking to a short highlights video, but the interview itself was 45 minutes long.
I don't think the full video is available anywhere, so it's hard to confirm that "pretty wrong" quote.
This Reuters story carries the same quotes and, unlike the linked Fortune article, doesn't sit behind a paywall: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/openais-altman-sa...
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#39It is kinda funny the irony of going from "we are going to replace devs" to "we <3 devs, keep burning those tokens"
I don't think its as big of a deal as its made out to be. They are human after all and have overestimated the capabilities of LLMs. What's more important is that this signals product market fit.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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#40This feels orchestrated (someone made a phone call to them). Look at this a16z tweet : https://x.com/a16z/status/2059687657840713925?s=20