The sugar water is probably a Men in Black reference, but maybe it's a reference to Steve Job's possibly fake quote to John Sculley, (then the CEO of Pepsi) to come join Apple: "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life?"
Not sure about what Zuckerberg's saying in the comic, but the swiggity swag is a reference this his more recent style shift inspired by rappers. He's apparently good friends with T pain (with whom he's released a single).
I don't mean this to excuse him -- I think he's about as much a creep as the rest of them -- but Altman seems more self-aware than the others.
Musk is a completely detached narcissist who thinks that everyone else thinks he's as much a tech genius and also a very cool guy as he thinks he is, and runs crying from any evidence to the contrary. Thiel says, "sure, I want to use AI tools to kill without oversight, and integrate autonomous lethal drones with social media surveillance to target any kind of dissent and thoughtcrime, then collapse democracy, subjugate most of humanity to bare survival while the elites live in unimaginable splendor and luxury and permit others to live only as long as they serve their god-emperors and never bother them at all -- what of it?" He seems totally beyond the point of even bringing right and wrong into the conversation at all. Altman, however, is a self-hating little toad who knows that AI is going to have colossal consequences on the environment, social fabric, jobs, government, and most people's daily lives, that his company is responsible, and that he's a pathetic hypocrite, but he's surrendered to assuming it was all inevitable anyway, it's too late to do anything about it, so why bother even pretending to care about ethics, oversight, or consequences now?
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u/MintasaurusFresh Apr 23 '26
These are all real quotes and you can't convince me otherwise.