How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots (opens in new tab)

Just wait for the economics to catch up and eat the marketing. No effort required.

AI spending is all what keeping american economy afloat or else a big recession

It's kinda too big to fail in US now. If it bursts, US will decline quickly.

The “reverse centaur” is a natural product of capitalism wanting workers to be as replaceable as possible in order to drive down wages. An ordinary “centaur” is counter to companies’ goals, they don’t want workers empowered.

> “The bubble doesn’t want cheap useful things,” Doctorow said. “It wants expensive ‘disruptive’ things

That about sums it up. I challenge anyone to name five things that have gotten cheaper or better in their life thanks to AI.

I can't think of anything that I consume that has gotten better, and the only thing that has gotten cheaper is the value of your skills to your employer, as it wants you to offload more of your work to a machine they own or rent. But perhaps someone here can find some tangible improvement.

Bubbles do not have roots.

The bubble is weirdly being kept alive by the promise it can replace software developers, which is ironic because all it has really achieved is a deluge of slop.

Social media has also gone utterly crazy. The last time I saw a gaslighting operation on this scale and volume (including accounts who "hate" AI "because its so scary good") was during the start of the Gaza war.

These accounts becoming easier to distinguish too, because whether they boost AI or feign criticism they all categorically refuse to use the s word.

I guess there is a few trillion riding on perpetuating this mass psychosis so it makes sense they'd try to use every trick to keep it going as long as possible.

Internet bubble was nothing like this. The scale is greater, the promises are more insane and the pop is going to be much more devastating.

Maybe I misunderstand Doctorow, but I feel like he is the king of enshitificiation. Not that he produces shit, he's trying to be the opposite, but the people that buy into him over eagerly seem to be full of it. Ain't that a bitch?