Altman’s remarks in his tweet drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.

“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”

Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”

“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    So, we’re just trafficking in misinformation now?

    Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort

    True

    , Says Their Time Is Over

    Complete fiction. Clickbait misinformation.

    The tweet:

    I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.

    Thank you for getting us to this point.

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      I agree, the “Says Their Time Is Over” part is clickbaity, but the sentiment is the same. He’s thanking “manual programmers” for taking us to this point, clearly implying that from now on they will be no longer required

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        And he’s out of his mind or lying just the same. AI needs constant supervision, and if a human has to understand the code well enough to debug it, they may as well learn about it the code by – writing it themselves…

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          He’s basically a salesman, you can’t expect him to say the truth against his interests

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            Someone who believes or pretends to believe they’re telling the truth when they try to sell me magic farts is still a lunatic or an asshole.

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      He didn’t say them at the same time. He is absolutely all about firing them. It’s his favorite pastime.