Got a computer, phone, or a tablet with some memory chips inside? That’s a shame. You shouldn’t be doing that.

Well, at least not according to OpenAI’s Sam Altman, who shared his view on the rampant memory shortage in an interview on the YouTube Cheeky Pint and Stripe channel.

The entire interview is an interesting listen if you’re into AI, but the fun part starts at about 29:20 in the video. “From a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited DRAM supply sitting in their own computer,” said Altman without batting an eyelash.

True, Altman was making a broader point, and he did speak after a few pints of beer, but the comment is still pretty cheeky at a moment in which everyone buying any sort of electronic device that uses RAM memory is facing higher prices, precisely because the big business’ hunger for AI compute is sucking in all of the world’s RAM chips.

The internet, of course, had something to say about Altman’s seemingly never-ending lust for DRAM chips. The sentiment is clear: Stay away from our home machines, Altman. We’ve paid a steep price for a meager 16GB of RAM.

Some of the best memes we’ve seen are below.

How To Trap Sam Altman pic.twitter.com/cwaWuqfHD6

— Radhika Sharma (@Radhika__009) November 1, 2026

RAM must be collectivized to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity pic.twitter.com/4NR7Gtqbyt

— NIK (@ns123abc) November 1, 2026

sam altman: your ram should be in data centers

me with 32 gigs of ram: pic.twitter.com/P86ZCPg0Z4

— Peter (@pagb666) November 1, 2026

https://twitter.com/naiivememe/status/2116834620935467163

Tell Sam Altman that I use my 64GB of RAM to run print("Hello, World!"). I want him to know it's me. https://t.co/AqHAWOTvc2 pic.twitter.com/y6gYFyb5it

— Jaydeep (@_jaydeepkarale) October 31, 2026

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