AI Made Sam Altman Feel 'Useless and Sad'—X Users Tried to Make Him Feel Worse

In brief

• Sam Altman’s late-night post about feeling “a little useless and sad” collided with widespread anxiety about AI-driven job displacement—and users wasted no time saying so.
• Replies skewered the mismatch between billionaire vulnerability and the real-world fallout facing workers whose skills are already being automated away.
• The backlash was amplified by frustration over OpenAI’s planned retirement of GPT-4o, a user favorite whose deprecation has reignited trust and stability concerns.