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They're coming for your RAM and your cash

02 November 2026

The universal justification for any form of control on the internet used to be "won't someone think of the children".

Now a similar approach is being used to try and convince you that if you've got more than a few bytes of RAM in your computer then you're just being greedy.

Sam Altman of OpenAI has gone on record stating that he thinks people shouldn't have VRAM in their personal computers.

Instead of being so selfish, that VRAM should be used to further help the build-out of AI datacentres so that everyone can share that memory for the greater good (translation: for OpenAI's hope of making a profit, eventually).

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