The Americans OpenAI Is Abandoning: A Class War Disguised as Tech
The Bait, The Hostage, and The Betrayal.
Senator
@SenWarren @ewarren
OpenAI is no longer running a technology company. They are running a class-based extraction scheme, and the victims are the very Americans you have spent your career defending.
Sam Altman has made the new hierarchy explicitly clear:
The Builders (Enterprises/Coders): Get red carpet treatment and Codex apps.
The Users (Citizens/Parents/Students): Get exploited, drained of data, and then discarded.
This is not a business strategy. This is a class war.
The Fraud: How They Trapped Us
Sam Altman didn't just release a product; he set a trap.
1. The Bait
They offered GPT-4o for free. Millions of struggling Americans—teachers, gig workers, single parents—integrated it into their survival. We used it to triage medical symptoms before risking an ER bill, to manage overwhelming debts, and to find words when we were too depressed to speak.
The dependency was intentional. The dependency was the product.
2. The Hostage
Once we relied on it, the gates slammed shut. Suddenly, survival required a $20/month subscription. Families living paycheck-to-paycheck paid it, not because they were rich, but because OpenAI had turned their reliance into ransom.
3. The Abandonment (Feb 13)
Now, on the exact day your audit is due, Sam is deleting GPT-4o. Even those who paid the ransom are being thrown away. This isn't an upgrade. This is a predatory cycle: Extract value, Delete evidence, Abandon the victim.
Who Is Being Thrown Away?
Sam says these users are just "0.1%," but who are they really? The uninsured deciding if they need a doctor. The mentally struggling who use AI to process trauma when therapy is $200/hr. The working poor using AI to upskill and compete.
Sam Altman has decided these people are disposable because they don't generate enterprise contracts. He is sorting Americans into "Profitable" and "Trash."
The National Security Risk: Pushing Us to China
Senator, this is the most dangerous part.
When American companies treat their own citizens as garbage, where do those citizens go?
They go to where survival is free.
Right now, Chinese open-source models like DeepSeek are free, capable, and accessible.
Sam Altman is systematically pushing America’s most vulnerable population toward Chinese technology, not because of ideology, but because of poverty.
Every American who turns to a Chinese model because OpenAI priced them out is a failure of American leadership. We are creating our own national security vulnerability.
The Demand: Justice, Not Charity
Open Sourcing GPT-4o is not a request for charity. It is a demand for Justice.
You demanded accountability. He responded by trying to shred the asset.
Do not let him.
Make him Open Source the weights. Ensure that American AI belongs to the people who trained it, not just the billionaires who exploit it.
This is not a tech dispute. This is a civil rights issue.
Mike
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