That's fairly bold to ask for ~6% of the total world economy as well as a sizable chunk of the world's energy.

The fundraising efforts are part of a broader strategy to address OpenAI’s growth constraints,

see...we just can't grow without TRILLIONS OF FUCKING DOLLARS

Good thing the board folded and allowed this to be full for-profit. Getting people reliant on LLM subscriptions is super important for humanity right now.

Another L for Earth, in general.

For perspective, global annual GDP is $105 trillion, which means Altman is asking the world to invest 6.7% or so of the entire world's economic output for one year in his company.

I also want to raise $5 - $7 trillion dollars.

I wonder if this will be one of the things pointed at after the AI bubble bursts. Yes, AI will be sticking around, but the hype over it now is ridiculous.

Thank God there is trickle down economics. We will all benefit in the end... Right?

Could that level of investment ever be recouped in any other manner than by replacing vast numbers of workers and their salaries?

$7,000,000,000,000? It's a good thing we won't tax it ever at all in any capacity! Not while there's Single Mothers overdrawn on their Bank Accounts! #SaveTheTrillionaires!

Do they even think about where in a functioning society those trillions are coming from? Do they think wealth just magically appears without affecting the wealth gap?

5-7 trillion and they’ll still end up stealing data from all over the internet.

We will come to regret not jailing San Altman.

Can someone ELI5 what's the open in the OpenAI's name at the moment?

I know they released Whisper as an open source model and that's about it, but I might be wrong.

I used to think they were unethical scammers.

Now I know for sure.

Just a few more parameters, then the text prediction model will become sentient.

I, too, would like 5-7 trillion dollars

We could solve so many problems with that much money.

I'm not pretending AI isn't useful. There is plenty of field where AI helps. But, AI has been the next scam after blockchain, crypto, NFT...

It's the end of our civilization with falling capitalism. But, capitalism will try to find new ways to make short term profits. We moved from fordism to post-fordism with the enslavement of the cognitive abilities. We entered the next era with all these scams. And entshitification is a symptom of this.

You could build a huge, state-of-the-art orbital station for 1 trillion lol

why spend it on some software

Motherfucker is going for the biggest heist of all time. What a colossal waste of money and resources.

$2.92T is current Apple market cap btw

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

i guess the number they want to fundraise comes from an AI (maybe because they do not want to think by themselves any more)

as far as i am right with the "trillion" which is just a "billion" where i live and 1e12 (a 1 followed by 12 zeroes)

but according to wikipedia (in 2017) there are only:

14.000.000.000.000 USD existing in the world while they want to fundraise 7.000.000.000.000 USD

so basically they want half of the USD that had been printed in all history up until 2017.

maybe they just want to say that they want to push YOU into poverty, who knows.

may it by getting it from you or by letting some govs print money faster than ever, reducing your money to half or less of a fraction of its previous virtual value.

But the AI that came up with that number had "good luck" to not come up with the need of "more" money than ever has existed =D

i think i'ld prefer to use a dice when i really need a random "decision".

update: Plz tell me if i am wrong with the numbers or what the current 2024 number of all "printed" (well physical AND digital) USD in the world is at the moment. thx

It’s too bad the non-profit oversight board got killed by the for-profit subsidiary. OpenAI is dead on arrival as useful tech. It’s now a vehicle to deceive investors to raise VC cash.

This mother fucker REALLY wants the machine uprising ending.

What are we going to do tonight Pinky?

At this point I wouldn't mind them accidentally creating Skynet and killing us all in a nuclear inferno, just so we don't have to listen to any more insufferable, grifting techbros.

Max Zorin had the right idea about silicon valley.