Summary

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, aligning with other tech giants like Meta and Amazon.

Altman expressed support for Trump’s AI-focused agenda to maintain U.S. leadership in the field.

This comes amid Altman’s legal dispute with Elon Musk, who is leading Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency.

Musk, a former OpenAI investor, has accused the company of abandoning its public-benefit mission.

The donation highlights tech executives’ efforts to build ties with the incoming administration.

  • @jeffwM
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    421 month ago

    lol all these tech companies really think this will stop Trump from shitting on them

    • @electricyarn
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      481 month ago

      This just a protection racket. Their competitors who don’t donate will be hurt first. We live under organized crime now.

    • @BarbecueCowboy
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      51 month ago

      They’re probably right.

      Trump can say he won them over and that all of our best tech companies are friends of the government and him personally (which are the same to him). That’s pretty close to Trump’s favorite thing.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      31 month ago

      Oh just wait until they all start supplying trump with whatever data or tools he needs to do some really heinous shit.

  • @takeda
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    251 month ago

    Altman, Zuckerberg, Bezos (any others?) all paid exactly $1 million.

    • @Pilferjinx
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      181 month ago

      The price of keeping in the kings good graces

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      My guess is that Trump is collecting “protection” money. It’s not racketeering of he’s the president, right?

  • Optional
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    221 month ago

    That’s too bad, I was a huge supporter of Open AI before thi- hahaha . . Naaaaahhhhhh nah, not really. Fuck this guy and his horrorware.

  • ZephyrXero
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    161 month ago

    Is this to pre-buy a pardon for when he gets connected to the OpenAI whistle blower’s death?

  • Phoenixz
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    91 month ago

    Ops AI my ass

    More like open source AI and as soon as I got the free work let me steal everything for a for profit company

    Fuck sam altman

  • @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    What exactly is this inaugural fund being used for? Is it legal? They just bribing Trump with money?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Look at the missing money from his 2016 inauguration for the answer.

      I don’t believe that was ever resolved, though Melania was involved somehow.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    Didn’t this fucked ask for 8 trillion or some shit?

    Why is he donating a single mil?

    What a cheap assfuck.

  • @KY13KR385
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    31 month ago

    Booooooooo. Freaking sellouts.