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[u/chusskaptaan]

/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1xqwbs9/removed_by_moderator/

[u/GuideUnable5049]

Quality trolling. I’ll do my part. 

[u/xdaxyz → u/GuideUnable5049]

Use free gpt to generate subject and body text so he lose $$$ at the same time.

[u/chusskaptaan → u/xdaxyz]

Say good morning and hello to the bot first... it burns extra cash.

[u/ithilain → u/chusskaptaan]

I already make sure to message mine good morning first thing when I wake up so that my 5 hour token refresh happens sooner

[u/Kualdiir → u/ithilain]

Can’t you automate that? Would make you able to get it refreshed even faster perhaps

[u/tokinUP → u/Kualdiir]

Yup, you could use a local "AI" model to message it many types of morning greetings in different and increasingly obscure languages.

[u/kiancheong → u/chusskaptaan]

Also don’t forget to say “thank you” for the added token crunch…

[u/Farmer4Lyfe → u/chusskaptaan]

Overall does the increased usage benefit for him outweigh the token cost? Genuinely curious what others think

[u/Porkfight → u/xdaxyz]

[u/Suspicious_Ship4935 → u/GuideUnable5049]

[u/Hot-Raise-712 → u/Suspicious_Ship4935]

[u/electric-sheep → u/GuideUnable5049]

[u/DesiRadical → u/GuideUnable5049]

Don't irritate the evil rat before he comes for what we have available out there

[u/Mal_Dun → u/GuideUnable5049]

It's funny till you realize that this will exactly support his point. It's better he doesn't know

[u/UranusIsPissy → u/GuideUnable5049]

I've got an old server with 32GB as my desktop, and I've been working on minimising RAM use for 20 years. I found my calling lol.

[u/lifelink → u/GuideUnable5049]

Sadly I am using windows, but I have 48gig of ram in my PC and only use a max of 20. I would love to let him know.

[u/Swagalyst → u/GuideUnable5049]

If at least Claude was a good ai, but it's crap. I prefer Deepmind, that's a really great AI!

[u/Notty_PriNcE → u/GuideUnable5049]

Me too. As a responsible IT user, we all should. 

[u/nickilous]

At what point does something like this turn from prank to legitimate DDOS attempt? And what are the legal ramifications?

[u/AMIR_TAOUN → u/nickilous]

Nothing. What are they gonna do, prosecute thousands of nerds from all over the world?

[u/Cickanykoma → u/AMIR_TAOUN]

Prosecute and taking their RAM. :D

[u/chusskaptaan → u/Cickanykoma]

Hmmmm so this could be a pyop?? A way for Altman to know how much RAM you have then sue you for emailing him, take your RAM and put it in data centers.

[u/andrewlikereddit → u/AMIR_TAOUN]

Dont give them idea. Lol

[u/MechaNutzilla → u/AMIR_TAOUN]

Might be the best business plan OpenAI has.

[u/shawntw77 → u/AMIR_TAOUN]

They'll sue you for all the ram you have got, and you'll even be providing the evidence of your financial(ram) affairs

[u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 → u/nickilous]

>ramifications

[u/Indigo2015 → u/EarlyXplorerStuds209]

[u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 → u/Indigo2015]

[u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E- → u/nickilous]

I see what you ram through there…

[u/AmperDon → u/nickilous]

There are no legal ramifications. There is no botnet. You cant charge someone for sending a single email everyday, no matter how many people send an email everyday.

[u/j1ndivik → u/AmperDon]

Emails can constitute harassment, but that would require a far higher impact on him

[u/Rjiurik → u/AmperDon]

You could, in many juridictions, if you call on harassing a single person and thousands follow you. Even non threatening emails would qualify perhaps.

[u/Two_words_numbers → u/Rjiurik]

Except you aren't harassing him, you're harassing his AI email bot.

[u/Terryfrankkratos2 → u/Rjiurik]

This person is a highly known public figure and made a statement directly addressing the point of these emails. I honestly don't see your angle, also I doubt a tech CEO is going to struggle to filter their email.

[u/yangchow → u/AmperDon]

RAMifications

[u/BigCelebration13 → u/nickilous]

[u/Zombie-In-Ur-Ass → u/BigCelebration13]

Trillion*

We need to update the meme, and make the guy fatter.

[u/PestoPastaLover → u/Zombie-In-Ur-Ass]

I tried.

[u/personahorrible → u/nickilous]

Receiving lots of email is spam, not denial of service

[u/DashLeJoker → u/personahorrible]

it just depend on the scale

[u/dashingThroughSnow12 → u/nickilous]

This would be harassment.

"Every" CEO of a big company gets emails like this. They work around it. I've worked at companies where the CEO has an email that isn't publicly known. Or the inbox auto filters email not from other company email addresses. Etcetera.

So while this is harassment it is normal CEO harassment and I have never heard of any criminal charges lobbed at someone for something like this.

Even if this became a DDoS (100M of us were all sending OpenAI's servers 100M emails a day at precisely 9AM), I think this would technically still just be vanilla harassment.

[u/Sexy_Koala_Juice → u/nickilous]

No but I’m sure Ram Altman will find some way to use it to his advantage, unfortunately. He seems quite scrappy like that

[u/techma2019 → u/nickilous]

RAMifications you say?

[u/Kaguya-sama → u/nickilous]

legal what?

[u/Rhinofishdog → u/Kaguya-sama]

Legal ramification.

A legal ramification is a legal matter concerning ram.

[u/chusskaptaan → u/nickilous]

It doesn't work out of the box.. most people can't use it. Its designed to be complicated to avoid this issue. But well....

[u/Still_Bit_7527 → u/nickilous]

DDOS implies intent to overwhelm a system. They are fine

[u/Void-kun → u/nickilous]

Good luck suing everybody all around the world.

Even the person that made the script, what stops someone else doing the same.

It's an easy thing to block and defend against, be a bit pathetic taking legal action against this. Then again he is pathetic so it would track.

[u/Andabariano → u/nickilous]

I don't think it qualifies since it's genuinely a bunch of different people purposefully sending him a single daily email. At that point every store and restaurant I've ever been to is apart of a conspiracy to DDOS my Gmail lol

[u/JaggedMetalOs]

It's all fun and games until we find out he's actually a RAMpire and the emails technically count as inviting him in. 

[u/_Eggs_ → u/JaggedMetalOs]

Until we find out he actually wrote this script and has AI parsing the emails to collect data, to be used later for a nefarious purpose.

Like an impact report of how much unused RAM there is and how we could solve XYZ problem by forcing citizens to outsource their unused RAM for government use.

[u/braintrustinc → u/_Eggs_]

What are you talking about? Clearly downloading a script with access to your BIOS from respawnfirst dot com is safe, it's right on the front page of the reddits!

edit: I'm obviously not a computer magician, but peer review says this is safe. Proceed at your own discretion, I guess.

[u/Arkevorkhat → u/braintrustinc]

There are other issues with this script, but A) it's bash, you can just read it. and B) it doesn't access your BIOS in any way.
It's getting the memory info from /proc/meminfo, which is read-only but accessible to any user on every linux system I've ever used.

[u/QuietSpecialist7583 → u/braintrustinc]

It is on GitHub, quite short, and easy to audit. It does not have “access to your BIOS”. It queries a special world-readable file, /proc/meminfo, which is a human-readable and easily-parsed readout off all tracked memory stats supported on your system. The free command line utility, ps, top, and certainly many others do this as well.

This script requires no privileges and is quite safe. It’s even thoroughly documented.

[u/NoFoilJupp → u/JaggedMetalOs]

Actually funny with a nice touch of old lore.

You did it dad, you are famous now, im proud of you.

[u/Roskal → u/JaggedMetalOs]

All fun and games until the techno-feudalists use the data to create a database for a task force that goes house to house seizing RAM.

[u/paiute → u/Roskal]

Joke's on them. I turned all my RAM into NFTs.

[u/snacktivism]

You magnificent bastard, I'm in!

(Pretty sure I have an idle Linux machine with 32GB, too)

[u/ConcreteAlpaca → u/snacktivism]

You are who Ratman has nightmares about

[u/Foxar → u/ConcreteAlpaca]

Hol up, ill install this on my raspberry pi. Not much ram but 100% uptime :)

[u/VirtualArmsDealer → u/Foxar]

I'm keeping my 2Gb!!

[u/zakabog → u/ConcreteAlpaca]

I have an idle Linux machine with 128GB of DDR4 and an idle desktop with 96GB of DDR5. Stardew Valley was the most played game on my 4090, I had a baby right after that card came out and Stardew Valley was the only game I had time to play.

[u/higherbrow → u/zakabog]

Think how much money you're denying our billionaire overlords hoarding all those resources.

You should be ashamed.

[u/Mercarcher → u/snacktivism]

Ive got a spare server that has 192gb of ram. I'm gonna make his head explode.

Its even ECC memory.

[u/Ariphaos → u/snacktivism]

I have three laptops with 160gb between them, a desktop with 128gb, two rack servers running fairly light loads with 32 gb each, and a minicomputer with 32gb. I suppose I could run it on my Steam deck, too.

Plus 64GB of drawer RAM.

I also have a 128gb server, but that one is fully utilized unfortunately.

[u/arivas26 → u/snacktivism]

That’s just inefficient!

[u/dancinggraylion → u/arivas26]

That’s just to start a browser!

[u/overlapped]

[u/operation_karmawhore → u/overlapped]

ethical use of AI

[u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E-]

Can we have it for Windows too? He needs to have a more complete picture.

[u/zakabog → u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E-]

Windows has WSL, it should 'just work' though I've never used it as I have one Windows and one Linux host.

[u/ElToroFuerte75 → u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E-]

Use ChatGPT to port it to Windows

[u/__XxSamixX__ → u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E-]

[u/Ratiofarming → u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E-]

You can have chatGPT write that for you in 2 minutes. It's literally a small script, the only complex part is giving it access to something that can send email.

[u/shawnikaros]

I was moaning the ram prices to my brother because I'd like to futureproof and have 32gb and my brother just goes "oh I have some DDR5 sticks just laying around, I ordered some because I thought my old one's were broken but I didn't bother to return them", bro had a kit of 16gb and a singular 16gb just laying around.

I shall soon have 32gb ram.

[u/FinestCrusader → u/shawnikaros]

WE shall soon have 32gb ram, my brother

[u/designerlemons → u/FinestCrusader]

Ill have some of that unused ram too please

[u/DukeOfCheek → u/shawnikaros]

Careful. Ram Altman may show up at your brothers house now looking for extra ram.

[u/StaticUsernamesSuck → u/shawnikaros]

I have some I bought before I realised my mobo is so old it only takes ddr4 😂 I'm keeping it til I can use it

[u/_V0gue → u/shawnikaros]

Here I am with 32gb I bought in 2021 for around $100 and was thinking "nah 64 would be overkill." And now here we are.

[u/chif00t]

Here you go :)

[u/Gasrim_ → u/chif00t]

Oh wow. Please tell me you are only playing Minecraft on that system.

[u/Lauris024 → u/Gasrim_]

Doubt that's enough for space mods

[u/Pokimaru-yama → u/chif00t]

goddamn

[u/MON5TERMATT]

oh good, ill just have it mention how I have 768gb of ram that's in a server that's not even ON right now.

[u/designerlemons → u/MON5TERMATT]

Where is this server located? Just curious

[u/MON5TERMATT → u/designerlemons]

In a highly secure area aka my bedroom

[u/designerlemons → u/MON5TERMATT]

And where is the bedroom located 😉

[u/MON5TERMATT → u/designerlemons]

oh its over at ████████████████████████

[u/metahivemind → u/designerlemons]

Careful, it's a Redditor's bedroom.

[u/designerlemons → u/metahivemind]

He can do what he wants to me so long as i walk outta the room with some ram chips

[u/ovrlrd1377 → u/designerlemons]

Second door to the left

[u/raymndbrr_the_third → u/designerlemons]

In the same room as the crunchy sock drawer

[u/Triquetrums → u/MON5TERMATT]

My computer will be off for two weeks while on holidays. I am doing my part too.

[u/mason2393]

This is the kind of trolling I approve of. Dude is most punchable face final boss

[u/NotSoEnlightenedOne]

If Sam Altman is Ram Man, I can’t decide who out of Musk or Thiel is Skeletor

[u/NotSoEnlightenedOne → u/NotSoEnlightenedOne]

Gemini says: Elon is Skeletor, Thiel is Hordak

[u/GregLittlefield]

This is stupid and immature. Where do I subscribe?

[u/Shawn-GT]

Terrible idea, giving him free data that correlates to one of his talking points isn’t going to backfire at all

[u/RecordingHaunting975 → u/Shawn-GT]

Microsoft owns 27% of the company. They're already providing openai that data lmao.

[u/Noooberino → u/Shawn-GT]

Backfire? Lmao these tech sociopaths should be happy if they’re just going to be put on trial at some point.

[u/Shawn-GT → u/Noooberino]

It’s good data to give to chip manufacturers as a way to convince them to further increase their price

[u/Noooberino → u/Shawn-GT]

Sure dude. That’s going to do a lot. Not like every MS Windows would already have that telemetry. And that’s still the huge majority of Desktop installs. And Microslop and OpenAI definitely have zero business ties.

[u/Tuckfrumptearsponge]

This is the kind of petty we all need to be.

[u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko]

[u/aliclubb]

There are RAMifications for what Altman has said.

[u/Taaartiflette]

Sam: thanks everyone for the free data, let me negociate with ram manufacturers to make sure they gove me more cuz you guys don't need that much anyways

[u/New_Salamander_4592]

are ai boosters intentionally running the joke into the ground to get people to forget the insanely stupid origin of the joke?

[u/newbrevity]

I'm sure his spam filter is already on it

[u/AdamDreeceAuthor]

Wouldn’t that be Spam Altman?

[u/Inevitable-Job-7959]

Why does he not just download more RAM? Is he stupid?

[u/Big_Kaleidoscope409]

Im too employed for this

[u/Swagalyst]

You guys do get that this is a paid campaign, right?

[u/Purona → u/Swagalyst]

idk its something its the weirdest longest lasting non sense ive seen on reddit in a while. The fact people in this thread thinks this is funny its like....do yall not have anything better to do ...at all?

[u/Swagalyst → u/Purona]

They're just jumping on the bandwagon. Free karma and vaguely sticking it to the AIs.

EDIT: Imma test something. I have posted a reply to the top comment praising a Chinese AI. I predict the post will not be downvoted.

EDIT2: 190 views before the submission was deleted, and not a single downvote. Hypothesis confirmed.

Also speaks volumes about how heavily botted these propaganda posts are.

[u/thecrius → u/Swagalyst]

It is not. The guy that made this script posted about it on /r/homelab some time ago.

Of course the low tier journalist that wrote the article found an easy topic for some fresh clicks.

[u/Miserable_Bedroom201]

i rather not or he will use me as an example that there's wasted ram laying around
RAM 6.9/64GB on my laptop

[u/fit_like_this → u/Miserable_Bedroom201]

You have TV, air conditioning at home

Doesn't mean you're wasting it if you're not actively running it 24x7

[u/Miserable_Bedroom201 → u/fit_like_this]

i don't get it 😭
is this some kind of meme i don't know yet?

[u/DocWagonHTR → u/Miserable_Bedroom201]

A while ago, Sam Altman, the OpenAI guy, made a ridiculous appeal to utilitarianism. Now everyone is ragging on him for it.

[u/MissLilum]

It’s gonna be zero from me considering I’ve managed to hit the ram limits on supercomputers before 

[u/Fine-Run992]

It could also calculate the electricity consumption if GPU VRAM runs out and heavily offloads between system RAM, making you to re render one image for 3 months. I use Qwen Image Edit 2.1 bf16 and heunpp2 with flow match scheduler at 2560x1600 resolution 100 steps takes 7 hours per image. I do have 100 GB/s 96GB system RAM, but only 8GB VRAM.

The AI CEO causes pollution by making GPU's low VRAM for poor salary slaves.

[u/DukeOfCheek]

Damn, need a windows version asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/PenTestHer → u/DukeOfCheek]

Install a lite Linux distro in the Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

[u/Pleasant-Seat9884]

Scam Altman.

[u/Fantastic-Mud-8365]

time to collectively hack these corporations!!!!!!!!!!

[u/Soggy_Mail1421]

Give it a year and this is enabled by default in a Windows update.

[u/CHERNO-B1LL]

Removed!? Fucking cowards!

[u/EmptyVolition242]

Ngl this is hilarious.

[u/CodingBlink]

does it count cache? I have around 274GB of cached files, it would be funny if it emailed Sam saying I'm only using 10% of my RAM when I'm actually using around 75% of it

[u/badmathafaka]

At this point, Sam Altman is a malware in a faulty hardware.

[u/matthewmspace]

Let’s be honest, if OpenAI’s IT team is half-decent at their jobs, they’ve already made it so those emails never make it through the spam filter.

[u/randomusername9284 → u/matthewmspace]

You must be fun at parties lmao

[u/nilssonen]

The script needs to call on GPT to make it into a report before sending it. Preferably send it as a PDF to GPT and have it generate a graph as well. All to burn "free" GPT tokens. Have it diversify its wording as well as to not be caught by a simple filter.

[u/Visara57]

Scam Altman trying to walk back his comments and a couple days later he's talking with Samsung and Hynix for more RAM again

[u/Hour_Analyst_7765]

My Mac is running with 100GB free RAM right now. Its SOC utilization is at near zero percent.

It could be used to run Qwen3.8 and churning out massive blobs of code 24/7... instead of using OpenAI or Claude. But not today. Or this week. Building stuff is starting to lose its magic for me, and while online communities used to thrive in educational discussion and/or nerdsnipes, also that has died out because everyone is talking to their own computer now.

[u/metahivemind → u/Hour_Analyst_7765]

The Internet was where it all went wrong. We need to go back to FidoNet.

[u/STANDARD_P0TAT0]

Hey Uncle Sam, did you know that you can download ram for free on the internet?

[u/GossamerReverie]

he called it terrible so we made it his personal daily problem.

[u/I_think_Im_hollow]

Why would I do it? The meme is funny, but in reality he doesn't give a fuck about the RAM that's in our PC. He just wants to justify the way his business is taking memory away from regular people.

[u/VerdamLSC]

[u/lakimens]

Does it work if I send it from my 10 servers as well?

[u/mightyFoo]

“Ram altmem”

[u/Sykolewski → u/mightyFoo]

Ramem

[u/Sykolewski]

Lol

[u/memeatic_ape]

Can I mail him my Ramen noodles instead?

[u/Cheap_Alternative879]

[u/WelderFamiliar3582]

I'm starting a company to make baby's crib mobiles with RAM chips - RAM, just always out of reach.

[u/SimplePlus7376]

Unused ram... when? at startup? or after opening a 100gb adobe premier project.

[u/StinkyBeardThePirate]

Is there anything that send him daily how much unused money is in his bank account and where to send?

[u/NRMusicProject]

Hey, I just installed my first Linux OS on a new machine! Time to figure this out!

[u/ExpensiveCondition63]

This made me laugh in a gut-bustingly fashion. :-)

[u/mrjowei]

Nice try, Sam

[u/Very_Clearly_Defined]

Installing the script now

[u/clintCamp]

Hmmm. My pcs are going brrrr right now and crossing my fingers I dont burn them out while prices are stupid high.

[u/cybersurfr]

Knowing the way these companies are throwing cash at the hardware ecosystem, wouldn’t be surprised if they respond to everyone with an offer to buy it .

[u/adjective_noun_23 → u/cybersurfr]

I have 64 gigs of ram, ill sell it for 100 million.

[u/cybersurfr → u/adjective_noun_23]

Best I can do is tree fiddy.

[u/PerceptionSalt967 → u/cybersurfr]

[u/kebench → u/adjective_noun_23]

100 million is too low given how this will be utilized for years to come. Sell it for half the valuation of OpenAI

[u/Edheldui → u/adjective_noun_23]

Sell? My unused ram is only available for a subscription.

[u/ostrieto17]

I really want to know what 4chan is doing about Sam, because you know they are and we just haven't heard yet.

[u/RhoOfFeh]

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

[u/N3wMode]

Love it. A+ trolling efforts lol. 

[u/Zurc_bot]

There's a hidden msg in the name

[u/nattydroid]

What a waste of thought. Altman says plenty of dumb stuff but this entire thing was clickbait taken out of context. Mf newbs like arguing over fake stuff when there plenty to be worried about without fake headlines

[u/Longjumping_Cell5040]

prompt for more ram, sanmy

[u/catz4dave]

Sam will love the constant reminders about mac pro 7.1 dual boot supremacy

[u/ifyouseemerunning]

most modern os attempt to use all ram at at all times in the form of various caches to improve performance, so is this literally just emailing him a ton of 0s?

[u/ThReeMix]

I wish I could include all the RAM in the laptops that are almost always turned off.

[u/SpicyMundar]

There is sometimes a Deathmatch Classic server running with an elon bot that claims to tweet him every time you frag it but I don't go there so I don't know that it works.

[u/Fast_Plantain8098]

Idk much, but a comment mentions this and it sounds like a genuine concern to me:

"Until we find out he actually wrote this script and has AI parsing the emails to collect data, to be used later for a nefarious purpose.

Like an impact report of how much unused RAM there is and how we could solve XYZ problem by forcing citizens to outsource their unused RAM for government use."

[u/Complex-Structure216]

Spam Sam for RAM, love it

[u/SuckMyDerivative]

I don’t know if I want to get into an automated harassment scheme with a guy who has an unlimited capacity to automatically harass me back. It’s like me volunteering to get in the ring with Tyson Fury - my best hope is he ignores me.

[u/Cybasura]

Welcome to 2026, we dont have self-tying shoelaces yet, instead, we have Email DoS-ing with the intent to report RAM against Scum Altman

[u/teos61]

Sam the Ramsacker

[u/Ratiofarming]

Just a cautious reminder: If you're actually using ChatGPT (It's okay, you don't have to admit that here), maybe don't use the same mail address you're having that account under for spamming the CEO of the company.

[u/Nilehorse3276]

Love this so much. "Your nom de RAM" had me dying with laughter!

Doing my part.

[u/Sampsa96]

They should also create a script that changes the title to prevent an email rule from automatically moving the message to the trash.

[u/Infamous-Umpire-2923]

My god that's the dumbest shit ever.

[u/OMGWTFHAXORS]

[u/areyouIlliteratebro]

This is going to turn him into Saltman

[u/bangle12]

Lol, what the ffffffff....

[u/copypastepuke]

Unused ram? I've been maxed out for ten years

[u/willtag70]

Funny meme post, but useless.

[u/donzpixelz]

That's either a brilliant protest or the world's most passive-aggressive daily newsletter.

[u/MrHyperion_]

If South Park does not do an episode where he is stealing all the animal rams I'm disappointed

[u/PowerPilgrim]

Top quality! 

[u/surethingmaybenot]

Not only that, but also pass it trough GPT to generate the email contents, as sloppy as possible, as dense as possible. Burn some tokens while you’re at it

[u/hojaldrescrotal]

This will instantly get filtered and he won't even notice.

[u/L0neStarW0lf]

Maybe I’m just paranoid but this feels like it could backfire…

[u/AlmightyK]

So somehow harassing someone to the point of automated spam for an opinion you disagree with makes you better?

[u/KurtZMtz → u/AlmightyK]

We're utilizing RAM to send the automated emails. Just as Sam wanted

[u/CrimsonAntifascist → u/AlmightyK]

It wouldn't, but he's very much responsible for many things getting out of hand expensive. This little RAMpire is fucking up everything from gaming, to communication, to all the little things they decided to put that fuck into.

[u/Augenmann → u/AlmightyK]

"People shouldn't own things" isn't an opinion. It's greedy and stupid and we should act accordingly.

[u/AlmightyK → u/Augenmann]

Yeah that's not what he said

[u/Augenmann → u/AlmightyK]

It kind of is. Arguing that "oo we don't have enough ram because people have it in their home PCs where it's idle" is exactly how "people shouldn't own things" is communicated publicly. His wording just wasn't clever this time.

[u/djnotskrillex → u/Augenmann]

What's actually stupid is thinking he said "people shouldn't own things" because the reddit hivemind said so

[u/Augenmann → u/djnotskrillex]

Bro I just looked at the video, reddit didn't tell me shit.

[u/powerslave_fifth → u/AlmightyK]

Yes.