{"id":474787,"date":"2026-03-14T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:37:09","slug":"ultra-tech-bro-sam-altman-wants-to-put-all-intelligence-behind-a-paywall-and-nobody-is-buying-it-15-brilliant-clap-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474787\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra tech bro Sam Altman wants to put all &#8216;intelligence&#8217; behind a paywall and nobody is buying it &#8211; 15 brilliant clap backs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman is the crown prince of AI right now and the movement couldn\u2019t have a more out of touch spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the future of artificial intelligence, the gawky tech bro had no problem laying out an aggressively capitalist blueprint for success in the industry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 SAM ALTMAN: \u201cWe see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KuoMDp1upQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KuoMDp1upQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheChiefNerd\/status\/2032012809433723158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translation: Altman wants to take all of your stuff away and then sell it back to you at a premium.<\/p>\n<p>The smarmy confidence he speaks with only underlies how confident he is in that becoming a reality.<\/p>\n<p>No one on Twitter seemed very interested in this path forward.<\/p>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWe stole all your knowledge and art, and now we\u2019re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You\u2019re welcome.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VlVuLBlHI8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/VlVuLBlHI8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/truthstreamnews\/status\/2032087622072373652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A proper society would have thrown this guy in a pit full of spikes three years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E9w7K0v3Aq\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/E9w7K0v3Aq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryce Greene (@TheGreeneBJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGreeneBJ\/status\/2032101330970353972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let me get this straight\u2026<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. \u201cTo benefit humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he raised billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Then he closed the source code.<\/p>\n<p>Then he converted to for-profit.<\/p>\n<p>Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J5EZEFB0Yd\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/J5EZEFB0Yd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bark (@barkmeta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barkmeta\/status\/2032135097630278050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every week, a tech executive goes onstage to tell the world they\u2019re deliberately making the world worse because it will make them money <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JqZU8zsWWl\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/JqZU8zsWWl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 arvo f\u00e4rt (@arvofart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arvofart\/status\/2032197027627757895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Absolutely disgusting words of totally disgusting guy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xtbC5mE3jA\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/xtbC5mE3jA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexander Dugin (@AGDugin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGDugin\/status\/2032065174501286399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Very Orwellian words<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ayub (@Easethesoul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Easethesoul\/status\/2032056998250897692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Altman is the crown prince of AI right now and the movement couldn\u2019t have a more out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,169306,10108,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-human-intelligence","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}