OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here's Why They're Targeting People Like Me

[progressoid]

Jan 26, 2026
When OpenAI sent someone to Tyler Johnston's house, they wanted every text and email he had on the company.
Tyler runs an AI watchdog, and he's just one of the people getting subpoenaed.
This is just the beginning of the AI industry's aggressive new political strategy.
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[SergeStorms]

1. A glimpse of the future....

and it doesn't look good, in my opinion.

[Duncan Grant]

2. One of the most important posts I've seen at DU this month. Thanks!

This piece not only shows how the sausage is being made; it shows who is making it. This will help people understand the world Schumer and Jeffries navigate. It’s worth your close analysis and extrapolation.

Edit: Bookmark this thread.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Strongly recommend. Thanks for posting.

[highplainsdem]

4. Thanks! Important video. And it includes a Chamber of Progress rep who blocked me and others on

Twitter for tearing apart that group's very flawed arguments.

The AI bros and their backers and allies have, for the most part, made themselves the bad guys.

They didn't have to make that choice, but they did.

[progressoid]

8. Seeing them all gushing over Trump was stomach churning.

[BidenRocks]

5. I'm old!

Who the fuck is Open AI? Do they have a mailing address or are they like ANTIFA, made up crap.

Under whose authority do they risk showing up on my doorstep?

I never got the memo!

[progressoid]

7. "Under whose authority do they risk showing up on my doorstep?"

Well, donating a million dollars to Trumps inauguration helps.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is collaborating with the White House on a $500 billion project to build more AI infrastructure. The endeavor, dubbed Project Stargate, is jointly developed by SoftBank and Oracle.

"Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president. It's a very refreshing change," Altman said to Trump over dinner. "I think it's going to set us up for a long period of leading the world, and that wouldn't be happening without your leadership."

OpenAI also launched a special initiative for government adoption of AI. The US Department of Defense awarded OpenAI a $200 million contract to develop AI tools for military and national security applications.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sam-altman-tim-cook-other-032744872.html

[paleotn]

6. Butlerian jihad. Smash the damn machines....

and the bro's building them.

[highplainsdem]

9. A Butlerian Jihad is sounding like a better idea all the time.

[Duncan Grant]

10. Kick for the night shift. (nt)

[hunter]

11. I don't watch video news or opinion, but I've read about this elsewhere.

"Artificial Intelligence" is complete bullshit. It doesn't exist yet. It's a party trick. A potted plant is more complex than these machines that supposedly "think."

The words, images, and music these machines spew have no meaning within the machine, the meaning is assigned to them by the minds of those who read the words, see the the images, or hear the music.

Humans are fully capable of speaking mindlessly, letting their language do their thinking for them, and we frequently do, which is one reason we are so easily fooled by these machines.

Artificial Idiocy begets more idiocy. It's a strange world we are living in.