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OpenAI Is Headed For Bankruptcy

It is nearly game over for Altman.

7 min readJan 24, 2026

Like the first wisps of smoke drifting away from the Hindenburg, the early warning signs of OpenAI’s imminent and inevitable catastrophic destruction are now undeniable. This is a problem, as unlike the Hindenburg, which carried a cargo of rich elites, OpenAI’s cargo is the US economy. We can all see the smoke. Yet the crew of OpenAI’s airship, its fanatical passengers and the dim-wits charged with looking after its precious cargo have reached mass hysteria levels of delusional denial and are claiming everything is fine and that they are in fact on course to land in paradise. Meanwhile, the rest of us know there is no smoke without fire, and even a tiny spark could detonate this gargantuan bomb right in our face. This is how OpenAI is about to go down like the Hindenburg.

Revenue? What Revenue?

This all starts with you, the people OpenAI desperately needs to become paying users of its cripplingly expensive and chronically incorrect plagiarism machine.

Shock horror, it turns out people do not want to pay for this crap, and recent investigations have found that less than 5% of ChatGPT users actually pay for the service. That is a dogs**t conversion rate — especially when you consider OpenAI is selling ChatGPT at a staggering loss to try and get…

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Will Lockett
Will Lockett

Written by Will Lockett

Independent journalist covering global politics, climate change and technology. Get articles early at www.planetearthandbeyond.co