“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water & people buy it from us on a meter.”
- Sam Altman
As someone whose books were taken without permission to train OpenAI, I have a problem with this.
How can a company claim to own work it didn’t create & sell it back to us?
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills-2000732953
Sheril Kirshenbaum
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2026-05-26 20:12:21 UTC
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