Sam Altman's controversial remarks have been widely slammed, arguing that it is unnecessarily wasteful for ordinary people to install large-capacity memory on their personal computers, and that it is better to uniformly turn over relevant computing tasks to AI.

Recently, Sam Altman has been widely roasted online!

All because of one sentence in his interview ——

It's extremely wasteful for ordinary people to install such a large amount of memory in their personal computers!

This remark directly sent the blood pressure of global PC users and gamers soaring, making them furious and lashing out.

Now this famous quote has topped the trending list on X.

In his opinion, the 32G or 64G memory you worked hard to save money to buy only has a 5% utilization rate, which is simply wasting the precious silicon wafer resources of all mankind.

If Sam Altman had his way, all the world's scarce memory resources should be stuffed into his cloud data centers, and allocated uniformly by him.

What is even more ironic is that before his words even faded, Sam Altman appeared in Yongin, South Korea, and held a closed-door meeting with more than 50 Samsung presidents.

He personally went to the hometown of memory manufacturers to "grab supplies".

Obviously, the situation is now very clear: he is not discussing resource allocation with ordinary people at all, he is directly notifying everyone — this whole table of dishes, I am taking them away~

This is completely cutting off the livelihood of ordinary consumers.

The arrogance of Silicon Valley elites: "Your use of memory is waste, but my taking it away is noble?"

The incident happened on the podcast "Cheeky Pint" hosted by the co-founder of Stripe.

The two talked enthusiastically, and when the topic turned to the global memory shortage, Sam Altman said plausibly:

When we look at the limited global DRAM supply chain, we find that the resource allocation is very poor.

Because hundreds of millions of personal computers around the world hoard a huge amount of memory, but for most of the time, the utilization rate of these memories is only about 5%.

Immediately after that, he threw out his "genius solution":

If these scarce DRAM resources are centrally deployed in cloud data centers, we can maximize the utilization of computing power throughput and task concurrency.

It is reasonable to let resources go to the places where they are most needed.

In other words, in his eyes, ordinary people like you who play games after work, open a few web pages to watch videos and make PPTs on weekdays, are simply not worthy of using large memory! You are just occupying the latrine without shitting.

The global memory production capacity is fixed, and if one more memory stick is installed in a personal computer, one less memory stick will be available for AI servers.

So stop buying memory, leave all of it to me!

The moment these remarks came out, the entire internet exploded. PC users, esports players, digital bloggers and geeks working on local large models around the world were all enraged and furious.

A billionaire who has seized all the resources in the world now even wants to grab the memory sticks of ordinary people?

What gives you the right?!

Brilliant comments from netizens: Then we should do the same thing to Sam Altman

Following Sam Altman's robber logic, the airbags and fire extinguishers in your car are only used once in a lifetime, so should they all be centrally handed over to the fire department?

Some people retaliate in the same way: from the perspective of global resource allocation, we really should dismember him.

This logic of maximizing efficiency can also be applied to this billionaire himself ——

Your yachts, luxury mansions and RVs are also very inefficient. Shouldn't these resources be allocated to education, poverty alleviation and job creation?

Sam Altman is acting really weird this time. He probably has lost his mind.

Some people even diagnosed that Sam Altman has a "occupational disease" — "data center brain atrophy".

This disease occurs when an executive spends all day negotiating hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure capital expenditures, TSMC fab capacity allocations, and multi-gigawatt power contracts.

When you live entirely in this bubble, you will start to see the entire planet's silicon supply as a single optimization graph, and any idle byte is intolerable to you.

In his eyes, you are not a user, you are "idle capacity".

And the most interesting part is that the person who said this is exactly the biggest driving force behind the global memory shortage.

Semiconductor production capacity is limited. When a large amount of capacity is tilted to AI servers, the output of the consumer market will drop off a cliff, directly leading to the worst consequence at present: the cost of consumer hardware has soared across the board.

Friends who often browse the PCEVA and Chiphell forums, or who have been checking JD.com and Taobao recently to prepare for PC building, must have a deep understanding of this.

In the past six months, driven by the siphon effect of the AI boom, the prices of solid-state drives (SSDs) and memory sticks (RAM) on the PC side have literally skyrocketed. The 2TB SSD and 32G memory that used to cost only a few hundred yuan are now almost unaffordable.

Why should we pay the "AI tax" when the giants are acting recklessly?

Open robbery! Sam Altman suddenly arrived in South Korea, conspiring to monopolize global production capacity

Sam Altman is one of the biggest culprits behind the current skyrocketing memory prices.

Last October, Sam Altman flew to Seoul and signed letters of intent with Samsung and SK Hynix respectively to lock in memory for the Stargate project. The target is: up to 900,000 DRAM wafers per month.

900,000 wafers may account for about 40% of the total global DRAM output. According to calculations by South Korean media, the combined monthly production capacity of Samsung and SK Hynix at that time could barely reach this number.

A single company openly demands 40% of the world's memory production capacity. The market panicked immediately.

By March 2026, the plot took a sudden turn: Sam Altman "bought" 40% of the wafers, but it turned out that he only wrote a few letters of intent, and he might never have intended to turn them into paid orders.

But the problem is, the market cannot distinguish between "letter of intent" and "formal order".

Panic has been created, production capacity has shifted, and Crucial has already closed down.

As a result, the price of DDR4 has skyrocketed 24 times in one year!

This kind of remarks not only exposes the Silicon Valley elite's arrogance, but also exposes his calculation: Sam Altman is not at all distressed about environmental protection and resources on the earth, he is only distressed about the computing power that has not turned into money in his pocket!

He wishes he could crawl over the network cable, pull the memory stick out of your computer directly, plug it into OpenAI's computer room, and charge you a service fee on a monthly basis.

According to foreign media and South Korean media reports, Sam Altman held a very high-level closed-door meeting with about 50 senior executives of Samsung Group (and even representatives from SK Hynix).

The core demand of Sam Altman's trip to South Korea this time may be only one: Under the current severe global memory shortage crisis, forcibly tie up Samsung and SK Hynix, and use abundant capital to frantically lock in the entire industry's memory production capacity for OpenAI!

This is Sam Altman's insidious "serial trick":

The first step is to PUA consumers through public opinion, brainwash them, and make them feel that it is a sin and a waste for ordinary people to buy large memory.

The second step is to wave tens of billions of dollars from investors in the supply chain, buy up all upstream production capacity, and directly cut off the supply of consumer-grade memory from the source.

While he is pointing the country from the moral high ground, he is overturning the dining tables of consumers. This kind of behavior of wanting to be a mentor and robbing money at the same time is not just ugly, it is simply too much to bear!

Some netizens even started to come up with conspiracy theories: these AI giants led by Sam Altman planned everything from the very beginning — they not only want to monopolize intelligence, but also force ordinary consumers to rent computers for