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The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI's $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake. "Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge." (futurism.com)
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[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 61 points 8 months ago

He appeared to be human, but then they counted his fingers.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 32 points 8 months ago

Mr. Vesper, could you wire me my pay? I have not been paid in months, and I need to pay rent!

"As an AI language model..."

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 50 points 8 months ago

It's shocking to realise how much of capitalism is just irrational bullshit tulip mania nonsense.

Sure, AI's going to change the world, but some of the valuations are absurd.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

true, it's going to make it worse

[-] mii@awful.systems 34 points 8 months ago

I swear, OpenAI is just a bunch of clowns LARPing as a company from Shadowrun and somehow it works and no one questions it.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

It works, as no companies who have institutional power to call them out on their Shadowrun larping will call them out, as their lie relfects their own lie, and suddenly they can no longer sleep. Project mayhem is capitalism! His name is Robert Dunkelzahn!

E: think my chatbot which I trained on my own posts broke there in the end, should have never trained it on making references.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

no no. once they get it running on the blockchain it will take over everything!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 27 points 8 months ago

"Or — bear with us here — maybe the AGI that everybody's so worried about is already online, and quietly trying to seize control itself. Just kidding... right?"

This is some sort of april fools joke right?

[-] Zier@fedia.io 23 points 8 months ago

AI = Crypto It's a hot mess, there will always be a scandal, and the con job is epic.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

a reader tipped me off to a beauty last night, an "AI company" that appears to be a completely fake company

more as it comes, i'll probably write a post about it

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Fortunately, the OpenAI fund is insured by renowned financier, Maximilian Bigbux, III, whose vast personal fortune includes uninsurable beachfront Florida real estate, newspaper stock, and some sweet crypto his cousin told him about.

[-] Napain@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

IT'S THE AI GUYS

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

IS IT NOT THE AI GNIIYS?!

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Are you kidding me, I got boxes full of Vespers.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Well, shit, all I got was the vapours! Oh me, oh my!

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Person of Interest theme starts playing

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

at least it's not joiler veppers.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

these guys are not witty enough to do it as a deliberate pun, no

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Or with the brevity demanded

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

Man, the hallucinations are getting out of hand.

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