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Found Yet Another Website That Tries To Scam Us By Sending Ram To Sam Altman

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Found Yet Another Website That Tries To Scam Us By Sending Ram To Sam Altman

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So you're buying 32GB of RAM and this pop-up appears asking if you'd like to "donate" 1GB to the Sam Altman Foundation for "AGI Compute Relief." Because apparently, OpenAI—the company burning through billions in compute—desperately needs your single gigabyte of DDR5 to power their 7-trillion-dollar cluster.

The kicker? Your remaining 31GB is "still capable of running Chrome tabs." Barely. Chrome would eat all 32GB and still ask for more like a digital black hole.

The passive-aggressive "No thanks, I will keep all 32 GB (Sam Altman will be notified)" button is chef's kiss. Yes, I'm sure Sam is personally monitoring every declined RAM donation while counting his billions. This is either the most elaborate dark pattern ever created or someone's fever dream of what "charitable hardware" looks like. Either way, if this is real, the audacity is almost impressive.

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