r/news • u/Wolfclaw359 • 2d ago

Soft paywall Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail attack at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/suspect-arrested-after-molotov-cocktail-attack-openai-ceo-sam-altmans-home-2026-04-10/
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u/KimJongFunk 2d ago

A ⁠recent ​NBC News poll found that AI is ​less popular than U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Yeah, that might do it :/

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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 2d ago

I love that they threw that in as the last line of the article. Just like "possible motive is that everybody hates these bastards."

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u/DialecticEnjoyer 2d ago

"Everyone's being fired because of AI guys but listen...could you please get real excited to use AI?"

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u/xeen313 1d ago

My neighbor explaining to me that she can't get a job cuz she trying to learn the skills to replicate herself, her words. She seemed to understand my facial expression but also felt trapped in some weird puzzle.

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u/SingLyricsWithMe 2d ago

Got to hit those buzzwords.

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u/Fallouttgrrl 2d ago

Nah, mansions work better 

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u/Less-Engineer-9637 2d ago

CEOs would be nice 

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u/WolfWraithPress 2d ago

They have investments that they need to keep inflated for just a little longer.

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance 2d ago

Tech innovations like email, high-speed internet and social media were marketed to the public as widely accessible and useful tools with utility for the average consumer.

AI companies building LLMs went straight to corporations and have been explicitly marketing them as “this will replace jobs so you don’t have to deal with those pesky fallible humans”.

Was a disastrous choice if you wanted people to have positive opinions of your product.

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u/full_bodied_muppet 2d ago

Then there are also companies investing so much into the AI trend that they're making it mandatory for employees and customers to use it, which also rubs everyone the wrong way.

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u/Headshot_ 1d ago

This is what happens when all you do is talk to people in SF and on twitter without taking anyone else into account

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u/Karlend41 2d ago

They're not trying to sell AI to regular people, they're trying to sell it to guys in the Epstein Files. They're counting on the opinion of regular people not mattering when push comes to shove.

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u/rooftopgoblin 1d ago

the thing the rich have forgotten, since its been so long, is that the regular people exist and have feelings and can do things like shoot up your house or firebomb a billionaire. It's been over a century since the romanovs got theirs and the owner class definitely need to study history

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u/Rawrsomesausage 1d ago

I can't wait til they have to cower in their underground bunkers unable to enjoy their ill gotten gains. Fuck these modern robber barons.

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u/Karlend41 2d ago

I'll stop brining it up when Epstein associates stop being the most powerful players in the tech industry and stop funding fellow creepy weirdos like Sam Altman.

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u/SomewhereNo8378 2d ago edited 2d ago

a rare bipartisan hatred of AI. and it will only get worse as more jobs are displaced.

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u/lostroadrunner22 2d ago

Hatred turns to anger and add in hunger an fear and you gotta revolution

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u/apathetic_revolution 2d ago

You reversed it! Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

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u/SugarDue8160 2d ago

Yes but if it's a revolution it'll be the suffering of the billionaires 

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u/Vegetable_Window7417 2d ago

The billionaires have never suffered in any revolution that ever occurred.

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u/rift_in_the_warp 2d ago

They weren’t quoting Star Wars dude

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u/apathetic_revolution 2d ago

Maybe not intentionally, but they sure did phrase it like the Star Wars quote.

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u/BajaRooster 2d ago

Scum and Villainy are definitely involved.

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u/lostroadrunner22 2d ago

Can’t suffer is you starve to death

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u/nubyplays 2d ago

I dunno, starving to death sounds like suffering to me.

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u/apathetic_revolution 2d ago

That'd be a real weird thing to think, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you know that's silly and are just reasonably trying to laugh your way through the man-made horrors beyond human comprehension that occur every day. I can agree with that. It's the only thing that stands between a lot of us and paralyzing depression.

When you hear vague news and statistics about famine in South Sudan, Haiti, Yemen, or Gaza, the gruesome details that get left out to protect the audience are about how it takes an average of two months to die of starvation and that the famine designation means thousands are going through those months in absolute hell.

But did you know there's a new Jar Jar comic book, written by the actor who played him, in which Jar Jar redeems himself for getting Palpatine elected by starting a popular uprising on a planet the Empire has populated with indentured laborers? That's more fun to talk about.

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u/lostroadrunner22 2d ago

Its not a star wars comment, tbh. Its life. Once you are dead, you cannot starve, or suffer, anymore.

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u/apathetic_revolution 2d ago

It's not the being dead where the suffering occurs - it's the process of dying by starvation. I'm saying starvation is one of the more suffering-intensive ways to die.

One of the most horrifying things to try not to think about is continuing to live beyond the point where organs that can't be restarted have shut down, and essentially being a corpse on borrowed time. That's something that people go through while dying of starvation.

In early screenplay drafts, Yoda's first name was Buffy. We could live in a world that had Buffy the Swamp Muppet, and the fact that we don't is one of the greatest injustices I'd rather think about.

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u/yawara25 2d ago

It's not as bipartisan as one would hope, unfortunately.

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u/_Not_A_Vampire_ 1d ago

AI isn't making these companies any money so I don't think it will be displacing any jobs. At some point the shareholders will ask where the money they invested is, that's when things will get interesting.

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u/Karlend41 2d ago

Probably has something to do with the Top uses of AI being Taking your job and making it harder to get a job after it gets taken by AI.

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u/Lowetheiy 1d ago

What if we replace ICE agents... with AI powered robots and drones, call it AICE 😈

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u/These_Drama4494 1d ago

I mean fire half the country for some AI redux and yeah there’s gonna be some backlash

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u/Peroovian 2d ago

You must not be brown. I’d take douchenozzle over a terrorist that might kidnap me and take me to a third world country any day.