Sam Altman Gives Himself a New Name as RAM Controversy Takes Over Social Media

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found himself at the center of an online debate. Recently, his comments on how people use RAM in their personal computers in the age of heavy demands of chips created backlash. In an interview with YouTuber Cheeky Pint, the OpenAI CEO mentioned, “From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.”The issue soon went viral in social media. Amid the backlash, Altman changed his name on X (formerly Twitter) to Ram Altman. The name change came after a user on X suggested that Altman should call himself Ram Altman.