The AI brain rot in Silicon Valley manifests in many varieties. For OpenAI’s figurehead Sam Altman, this often results in a lot of vague talk about artificial intelligence as the panacea to all of the world’s woes. Altman’s gaslighting reached new heights this week as he cited wildly deflated numbers for OpenAI’s water and electricity usage compared to numerous past studies. In a Tuesday blog post, Altman cited internal figures for how much energy and water a single ChatGPT query uses. The OpenA...