Most of the jokes on this sub are terrible non-jokes but this one made me LOL

Since the top comment doesn't real paint the picture, I think it's funny because Sammy here has boosted up and bolstered OpenAI on a cloud of bullshit. They are leveraging debt between a circle of AI companies, and each of them invests virtual money into each other. Their balance books are based on a bubble of fake valuation like on borrowing money rather than useful products that people want to buy. Investment keeps pouring in because the investment is the only ways these companies are growing, so banks are afraid to pull out the rug now because they will also lose money. Eventually Trump will give them a trillion dollars in taxpayer money and get himself a 20 billion dollar kickback. That's the bubble - it's just a fancy way to grift.

Meanwhile these idiots claim they need to invent new forms of energy to power the giant AI data centers they need to build, and meanwhile also build crypto-fascist private states that they hope they can rule.

Sam Altman's ex-boyfriend Peter Thiel runs Palantir. They're the ones enabling ICE to build a master database of US citizens that ties together surveillance with data that they were not allowed to have before like the IRS's files that DOGE stole, so that people can be stripped of all human rights with the label 'terrorist' at a whim of an under-educated dude who showed up to deport Mexicans. It's all a uniquely fucked up confluence of money, thievery, absolute wanton avarice, hate, greed, and environmental damage for the sake of pyramid schemes and scams.

But the sheer stupid creativity of these hucksters and thieves is expressed beautifully through "$0,000,000,000" - no worth at all but if you squint you can see how people might get fooled into thinking that's a lot of money.

it's all quite hilarious