I'm sorry - Sam Altman is claiming adding Jony Ive's washed design firm somehow adds $1 trillion to OpenAI's valuation? We should be actively mocking anyone who buys this bullshit - ThreadSky

edzitron.com • 11 days ago

I'm sorry - Sam Altman is claiming adding Jony Ive's washed design firm somehow adds $1 trillion to OpenAI's valuation? We should be actively mocking anyone who buys this bullshit

Reposted from Enjoyer of Hats

how can any investor possibly buy this shit

Comments

raidpanda.bsky.social•10 days ago

When I put up s a smile at work today, I'll tell my boss it'll create 1 billion in value for his company, and ask for a big raise.

nrcole.bsky.social•10 days ago

So advanced.

lookitup.baby•10 days ago

“Has the potential to”

vought.bsky.social•10 days ago

I have the potential to write a letter to the CEO of my company that will result in a 100% pay rise without me having to work, too.

b-r-h.bsky.social•10 days ago

That’s an incredible load-bearing phrase: remove and the whole statement collapses.

acjay.com•10 days ago

I also have that potential and am willing to sell my services to them for a mere $50 million.

acjay.com•10 days ago

Some have likened me to a low budget Jony Ive.

statsboye.bsky.social•10 days ago

You're selling yourself short, you've at least done something since 2017.

acjay.com•10 days ago

LMAO!

spocks7yearitch.bsky.social•10 days ago

Dear investors. I have the potential to revolutionize physics and travel by conceiving the instantaneous matter transporter.

I will sell you this potential for a low, low price of $300 million dollars.

The potential future worth untold trillions could be yours.

DM me.

tworooks.bsky.social•10 days ago

when the sizzle is fizzle.

trevorbattle.bsky.social•11 days ago

That's House Flipping TV Show math.... "New deck, cost $2000, value added, $35,000"...

cuil.world•11 days ago

The more ridiculous his claims the worse his company is doing

darkglade.bsky.social•11 days ago

Usually the way it goes with that lot.

zero-gravitas.bsky.social•11 days ago

If I add ".AI" to the end of my name by deed poll.. I'm automatically worth a squidzillion quid.

I'm a serious person.

sonarjose.bsky.social•11 days ago

Unfortunately, the semantic difference between OpenAI’s “value” & their “valuation” appears not to be lost on him. It’s all made up numbers by dog-brained dummies until it crashes.

unoservix.bsky.social•11 days ago

since you're all here for the chance to be part of history i assume you will have no complaints if i kind of technically slash your pay

leshij.bsky.social•11 days ago

It feels like Trump's weird $5 trillion thing during the Gulf tour broke the trillion-dollar barrier for bullshit claims. These numbers were always stupid, but saying "tens of billions" in added value just won't cut it anymore. Inflation, but for fake deals.

mpbmke.com•10 days ago

Like, is it all just an out-in-the-open money laundering scheme? How else do you not laugh this guy out of town?

justsomeguy123456.bsky.social•10 days ago

Pshaw!

How hard can it be to sell a trillion dollars worth of devices that don't do anything but spy on you?

harukizaemon.com•11 days ago

I’m going to found a startup: laundrAI. You in?! 😂

frozenpbr.bsky.social•11 days ago

I'm getting YouTube ads about the merger and how important it is. Which seems like a totally normal thing serious companies feel the need to do.

blueskyeria.bsky.social•11 days ago

Trillion ist the old million.

"Today I am launching a $250 million acquisition vehicle"
yesterday Anthony P.

iveseenfootage.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's mark-to-market accounting all over again. OpenAI will be next to Enron in the History of Technological and Financial Bullshittery books.

hatkidsays.bsky.social•11 days ago

Gotta love the weasel word "potential" here. This shit is so fucking stupid.

coffmanesq.bsky.social•11 days ago

bajmihal.bsky.social•10 days ago

On trillion, three trillion, who’s to say? He’s a very smart boy, you know.

alanbleiweiss.bsky.social•11 days ago

To be fair, we've been openly mocking them all along.

At this point it's gone way past ridiculous into pathetic.

eschneider.bsky.social•10 days ago

OpenAI is paying in funny money and, well, this has the potential for keeping the hype going a few months longer, so it's probably a "smart" move. A few more delay tactics like this will buy them some time to make a product people want. In theory. Maybe.

smallgraygames.bsky.social•11 days ago

I respect the audacity of just calling your startup "io." It's like the emptiness is right there in the name: what do we do? Oh, you know, startup stuff, doesn't matter.

holymountaineer.bsky.social•11 days ago

Can't wait to figure out what side of an LLM is the worst to put the charging port on!

ammartin.bsky.social•11 days ago

A trillion dollars worth of vaporware applications for AI that doesn't work, hates its users, and has no conceivable applications outside of pumping stock prices and the egos of mediocre businessmen who haven't had a good idea in a decade.

zero-gravitas.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hey now, that's unfair. AI has revolutionised the multi-billion dollar industry of scamming desperate boomers on Facebook.

fireflows.bsky.social•10 days ago

AI has the potential to be the next NFT-blockchain synergy!

darkglade.bsky.social•11 days ago

So, the entire techbro set in a nutshell?

Value vacuums, the bloody lot of them.

sssiiiggg.bsky.social•11 days ago

But a tech CEO said it! How am I not supposed to uncritically parrot it??

darkglade.bsky.social•11 days ago

I'll take "numbers pulled out of an arse for $200 thanks Alex"...

leftinfighter.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hey now for all we know they could be inventing the next Google Glass!

skaboomizzy.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is right up there with Jim Cramer going on CNBC at 9am every weekday to proclaim his belief in Elon's robots being everywhere in 2-3 years, pure delusion

darkglade.bsky.social•11 days ago

Just like FSD!

logatex.bsky.social•11 days ago

The big FSD "robotaxi" launch with actual customers is next month, in Austin

Real put up or shut up time for Tesla

Can't wait

crobi.bsky.social•10 days ago

I'm a roboticist and there's zero chance that Tesla will deliver. Not when they constantly bleed money like a sieve and haven't even built manufacturing for their humanoids.

crobi.bsky.social•10 days ago

it's all snake oil with them. Follow the research from the field and you can see manipulation is still a very difficult task

adamultraberg.bsky.social•10 days ago

not market manipulation

falken.bsky.social•11 days ago

Imagine being one of the True Believer AI engineers there, having worked so hard to build something that (in your opinion) is on the verge of true sentience, and your Sam tells you that hiring some designer is the biggest thing the company has ever done.

sfgaymom.bsky.social•11 days ago

The mistake is, Sam should have hired the NEXT Jony Ive. Not actual Jony Ive.

jasonnlewis.bsky.social•10 days ago

That sounds hard though. Picking guy-who-hit-it-big-15-years-ago is easier.

Also, what the hell is AI going to do with a *checks notes*
Industrial Designer?

I’m just a simple Mechanical Engineer with two decades of non -iPhone design experience, so explain it to me like that?

flanofcrows.bsky.social•11 days ago

Why does money matter less as there is more of it? And it's and equity deal, yes? No money down.

caseyhartman.bsky.social•10 days ago

Are we sure he didn't hire Johnny 5? He might actually add value to the company.

godsfavoritemick.bsky.social•10 days ago

We should be openly mocking anyone that uses AI period

juripakaste.bsky.social•11 days ago

I have purchased a lottery ticket and am happy to announce I have the potential to add a 100 million euros of value to my bank account.

coeur.bsky.social•10 days ago

what is jony short for anyway? anjonio?

stonkers.bsky.social•11 days ago

I traded for these 🫘 they have a valuation of 3 trillion dollars

cuil.world•11 days ago

Do you need any investors I hear beans are really hot stuff these days

stonkers.bsky.social•11 days ago

oh for sure, our sole business is finding investors. welcome aboard!

cuil.world•11 days ago

💎 🙏 wait what happens if you hold on to beans for a long time

stonkers.bsky.social•11 days ago

oh no, now that you’re in, you need to find investors to buy *your* beans, and then you get rich, and they find investors and so on and so on. It can’t fail!

cuil.world•11 days ago

Oh wow! So glad I got in on the ground floor of this pyram— hey wait a minute

ndndad.bsky.social•11 days ago

Elon Musk:

drvon2.bsky.social•10 days ago

I have repainted the front door of my house, which has the potential to add $1 trillion to the value of my house.

edmundito.com•10 days ago

Remember humane? This all sounds very familiar…

terraistrying.bsky.social•10 days ago

And possibly the funniest ever review of Humane.

https://youtu.be/9FIwYkGc4Qw

edmundito.com•9 days ago

Apparently I was not wrong: https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.bsky.social/post/3lptk7gghxs24

bryanquinn1981.bsky.social•10 days ago

I assume these people read The Emperor’s New Clothes and thought the problem was that everyone but the weavers was too unfit for their office or stupid. They really wanna see those clothes.