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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.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 50 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I can understand how that can be read into what he said.

I was simply pointing out that the headline is lying about what he said.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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....

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If you swap "says" with "hints", it works though.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world -4 points 5 hours ago

If you swap "says" with "doesn't say" it also works.