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Sure, like NFTs were here to stay, and the gazillion different shitcoins that were popping up everywhere some years ago.
To me it seems more like the bubble is finally beginning to burst. People are fed up by the hype and by having AI shoved down their throats literally everywhere. Companies start realizing that they cannot outsource everything to the shitrobot without having to pay people to fix the garbage produced by the shitrobot - so they are going back to paying people for the original task. I start to see it happening in my industry. All I read theses days are major fuckups by something AI everywhere I look. Hopefully the creators who invented this fuckery end up being forced to shove it up their arse, considering the environmental and societal destruction they caused.
The complaints about NFTs were always that they were stupid and useless. The complaints about AI are primarily that it's unethical.
Guess which of these things Capitalism doesn't care about
the reason why we’re calling AI a bubble isn’t because we think the people illegally running gas generators to power their datacenters have suddenly grown a conscience
we’re calling it a bubble because just like with NFTs, there’s no use case for LLMs or generative AI that stands up to even mild scrutiny, but the people funneling money into this crap don’t seem to have noticed yet
This is why I dislike the narrative that we should resist "AI" with all our power because supposedly, if our employers got us to train the chatbots, they would become super smart and would be able to replace us in no time. In my view, this is simply not true, as the past years have shown. Spreading this narrative (no matter how well-intentioned) will only empower the AI grifters and reinforce employers' beliefs that they could easily lay off people and replace them with slop generators because supposedly the tech can do it all.
There are other very good reasons to fight the slop generators, but this is not one of them, in my view.