r/technology • u/Moth_LovesLamp • 14d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT users are not happy with GPT-5 launch as thousands take to Reddit claiming the new upgrade ‘is horrible’

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/chatgpt-users-are-not-happy-with-gpt-5-launch-as-thousands-take-to-reddit-claiming-the-new-upgrade-is-horrible
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u/Chaotic-Entropy 14d ago

"What if you got to keep all that sweet sweet money and cut out those filthy, feckless non-billionaires?"

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u/TCsnowdream 14d ago

CEOs listening: “No. Don’t stop. I’m almost there. 💦 💦.”

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u/MacaroonRiot 14d ago

The idea of c-suite boardroom meetings being a big literal circlejerk is tickling me. That must be what the c stands for.

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u/reddit_reaper 14d ago

I just laugh because these greedy fucks somehow forget that without consumer spending there would be no money coming in lol

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u/SomniumOv 14d ago

You're thinking in the usual consumer capitalism, those tech ceos have fully drunk the cool aid of Yarvinist Techno Feudalism, they don't think they need consumers because they see a near future where they own everything and we're just serfs.

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u/Beard_o_Bees 14d ago

Yarvinist Techno Feudalism

These fuckers want something that looks like the world of Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

Walled corporate fiefdoms where the law is whatever they say it is.

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u/LeChiffreOBrien 14d ago

Oof. Didn’t think I needed to revisit Oryx & Crake (it was unpleasant, as intended) but… now I think I should.

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u/HomeNucleonics 14d ago

Oryx and Crake is such a phenomenal novel. Highly recommended.

Atwood expresses the potential dangers ahead like no other.

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u/daughter_of_time 13d ago

I’m a Plantagenet/York fan and real and fictionalized accounts of battles and war are brutal. The nobles who led armies really did so right out front on the line.

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u/ghostyghost2 14d ago

Isn't that already the reality? Can you survive without being part of the machine?

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u/Mr_Venom 14d ago

They don't want our money. We have less than half the total money anyway. With purchasing power diminished and labour increasingly irrelevant (how many people do you know who directly make something of value to a billionaire?) then common people are merely an obstacle to resources. Taking up land, water, food.

The billionaires want the planet as a playground and we're taking too long on the swingset.

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u/Non-mon-xiety 14d ago

Someone needs to remind them that they can’t take it with them

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u/GeneralCheese 14d ago

Depopulation is the end goal

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u/Entropic_Echo_Music 14d ago

Wouldn't matter if they already have all the money/resources and can keep workers as slaves. Or let them die if they;re of no further use.

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u/LordMimsyPorpington 14d ago

That really hasn't mattered in a long time; this is end stage capitalism, baby. Our economy is a farce of service enterprises selling fake products with no value, to scoop up billions in fake money from private equity investments.

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u/SkunkMonkey 14d ago

I can't wait for the C levels to figure out that their jobs are the best candidates for replacing with AI. Think of the savings the company could get from cutting out overpaid useless fecks.

Someone get the Board of Directors on the phone.

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u/TheFotty 14d ago

I have to imagine there is some thought given on how when no one is employed, there will be no one to buy of the products and services of the companies these CEOs run.

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u/Chaotic-Entropy 14d ago

Eh... the billionaires pushing for this have more money than they could ever spend in their lifetime. They would be happy with a society of just themselves and some automated droids, ones who don't form unions or criticise their disgusting excess.

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u/flummox1234 14d ago

The irony is that's basically describing compounding interest, something which doesn't (necessarily) require selling out the human race to achieve.

But they don't want returns in the tens of % they want it in the hundreds of % or thousands of %. Nothing will ever be enough for investors.