Did AI Do Something Wrong? Yes, Sammy, You Did. Go to Your Room Now!
September 1, 2026
Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.
When I saw this story “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Just Admitted He Was “Wrong” about AI — Laments That He Made the Tech Seem “Scary,” I told one of my team, “No, I am not going to write about this crazy BAIT (big AI tech) baloney. Sorry? Horse feathers.
Now I am writing about this remarkable output from one of the global leaders in Hyperbole Tech (Some call it techno-fascism, but I prefer baloney tech.) I will just skip the “why” and head right to the write up. Remember. I believe everything I read on the Internet. I also really want the BAIT companies to tell me what, how, and why to think thoughts. See. I am a good little dinobaby who thankfully won’t be around to see how this craziness, power hunger, and greed-mobile drives down the information highway. I am 82, and I really don’t care.
Thanks, Midjourney. Good enough.
The write up states:
OpenAI and other big companies are losing billions chasing artificial intelligence technology, and it’s only clever accounting and circular investments keeping the entire industry afloat. OpenAI specifically is in hot water, with spending commitments through to 2030 coming scarily close to $1 trillion dollars, and is operating purely on the basis of handouts from the likes of SoftBank, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Microsoft. OpenAI is looking to spend $50 billion in compute alone in 2026 on roughly $25 billion in revenue, revenue which is also made up at least in part with IOUs. Despite the scary numbers, OpenAI is trucking along on faith and fumes alone, as companies’ belief in the tech keeps the firm alive, for now.
The next big thing rests on circular financing and IOUs: Why, pray tell?
The article adds some color with Sam the AI man’s alleged statement:
“I also think a lot of the people building AI have been off saying there’s a 25% chance we’re going to destroy the world … and yeah, we’re going to race ahead and do it because otherwise those bad guys will do it first. Or it’s like, ‘man, this thing is going to be really terrible, and 50% of the jobs are going to go away in the next year, and we hope you are all okay,’ but it seems really scary. We have not, as a field, done a very good job of explaining to people what the benefits are and how the downsides can be mitigated. We certainly have not done a good job .
No, Sam, you and your fellow travelers have not. I thought El Zucko at Facebook was the pinnacle of social erosion. Now, after watching the craziness play out since Satya Nadella announced its deal with your outfit, you were wrong. But you did catch Google’s attention. The leadership looked nervous like a cricket play at bat knowing the bowler was aiming at his crotch. Bang. Googzilla punch its Code Red button, screamed, “We are behind,” and launched the Great AI Race. Yep, Sammy, you did something bad.
In the craziest days of the enterprise search “revolution,” none of the companies which have failed or just rolled over and died reached global distrust. Sure, there were outfits who sued the odd enterprise search vendor. One of the search CEOs did some time in a prison with A/C and TVs. Another bailed out only to be dragged into courtrooms to sit, perspiring, as former political science majors explained accounting to history majors. These two groups shared a love for torts and fame among legal eagles. One search pioneer embraced art. Another fled to Israel. But the AI CEOs and their marketing wackiness definitely outdid the enterprise search folks. Not even the quantum computing wackos come close to the AI crowd’s ability to generate revenue and outright dislike.
What other technology group has managed to cause citizens who cannot set up a new mobile phone to attend community hearings to protest data centers? None come to my addled dinobaby mind.
The write up includes an interesting statement; to wit:
a lot of these very technical, mathematically-inclined dudebros pushing this format have little knowledge or understanding about how and where this technology should be applied…. when 90% of the compute is being spent on utterly unproductive use cases, the economics simply seem primed to implode.
Now the “why I wrote this blog post”.
- I find it sort of fun to highlight a techno-centric publication willing to point out that Sam the AI man is acting like a typical tech bro. This is the “it is easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.” Ain’t gonna work for me, Sammy.
- The reference to circular financing makes it clear that a small group of companies are quite desperate for the next big thing. Why? Their investments in innovation have not worked. The fix was word prediction. Now that’s not working the way these firms envisioned. The trope “If we build it, they will come” is half right. If BAIT builds it, people will come but to public gatherings to protest AI and what the tech bros hath wrought. Good work. Half right. Close enough for horse shoes, right, bros?
- I read about Alibaba’s AliExpress snooping on its customers uses machine processing of audio. Yep, that’s a nifty application of smart software. Hence, I wrote this blog post, ignoring China’s use of the “attention is all you need” research paper. Good work, Google.
Net net: Sammy, you were bad. Go to your room. No online games. No TV. Go to bed. Did he say, “Yes, mama,” or did he utter something untoward?
Stephen E Arnold, September 1, 2026
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