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Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
(www.theguardian.com)
Going by the headline alone, fearmongering at best.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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Capitalist pig says buy our product or else. Story at 11.
"You know who doesn't buy my drugs? Maidenless losers." Said every drug dealer in history. It's not even good marketing hype, it's just sad at this point.
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I for one do not welcome these AI overlords. Get fucked.
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Eat shit Georgie.
He seems to have a financial incentive to say this.
Shiiit,
Don't threaten me with a good time
Leave my country behind thanks!
I can do without this flavour of development: wealth concentration, surveillance, censorship, and inevitable enshitification
Call me in 20-30 years when its testing grounds have been burned down and its a client side only, fully open sourced consumer favored code
Don't need or want your Ai slop enshitified distopian dream thanks, Mr/Mrs dozen golden parachute packing multi-billionaire wannabe CEO
Oh boy, it's time to show this gif of George Osbourne off his tits in Parliament again!
The only good use of AI would be to use the heat from its excessive power consumption to keep our sausage rolls warm
Wasn't he the chancellor who introduced the tax on take out food.
The very same
Can I get left behind?
Waiting for the AI rapture to take all these fuckwits away.
Holding on to one's preferred human culture and values is not being 'left behind' in any sense ... they may in fact be 'left ahead'.
"My farts smell nummy" - George Osborne
FOMO, fear of missing out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomo
"Hurry! Before the bubble bursts!"
Oh, I thought it stood for Fuck Off, Miserable Osborne
"left behind" sure I think most of the world is fine with that.
"Please be an early adopter, otherwise we might run out of money if you wait for the technology to mature and sufficient use cases to emerge"
That OpenAI that is strugglin to make any money out of their tech and will probably go bankrupt in a year? Ok
Suck my LLM (Long Lingual Mallet)
lol