Sure enough, Altman backpeddled, saying he was “taken out of context”, and he was actually complaining about people running local AI models.

And why the eff shouldn’t we be running our own local AI models, Sam? I’m just starting to look into AI assistance and that’s exactly what I’m doing, because I don’t want to be nickel and dimed into bankruptcy while I train your models.

For years, the wealthy have been telling the poor to “get out of the rent trap” and “stop paying your landlord’s mortgage”, but now they think we’ve all suddenly forgotten?