relevant article https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/tech/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained-collapse-or-not-chatgpt

AI storytelling is an amalgam of several different narratives, including:

Inevitability: AI is the future; its eventual supremacy is both imminent and certain, and therefore anyone who doesn’t want to be left behind had better embrace the technology. See Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, insisting earlier this year that every job in the world will be impacted by AI “immediately.”

Functionality: AI performs miracles, and the AI products that have been released to the public wildly outperform the products they aim to replace. To believe this requires us to ignore the evidence obtained with our own eyes and ears, which tells us in many cases that the products barely work at all, but it’s the premise of every TV ad you watch out of the corner of your eye during a sports telecast.

Grandiosity: The world will never be the same; AI will change everything. This is the biggest and most important story AI companies tell, and as with the other two narratives, big tech seems determined to repeat it so insistently that we come to believe it without looking for any evidence that it’s true.

As far as I can make out, the scheme is essentially: Keep the ship floating for as long as possible, keep inhaling as much capital as possible, and maybe the tech will get somewhere that justifies the absurd valuations, or maybe we’ll worm our way so far into the government that it’ll have to bail us out, or maybe some other paradigm-altering development will fall from the sky. And the way to keep the ship floating is to keep peddling the vision and to seem more confident that the dream is inevitable the less it appears to be coming true.

speaking for myself, MS can thank AI for being the thing that made me finally completely ditch windows after using it 30+ years

who do i email to tell epic that they suck so fucking hard that i’m over here buying games on steam that i had already gotten for free on epic

yea, i do a lot of dumb shit with money. gonna blame my parents for passing financial dumbness onto me

sometimes i think that. but i can just look at the news on any given day and feel like i’m further to the right on the sanity bell curve

edit: lemmy helps too

don’t look at that before, during, or after eating thanksgiving

yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash

gotta address the oligarch technofascist problem first. kind of hard to force companies to break up when the companies owns the people who make the laws

pretend that he is in sync

no need. M$ and pretty much every other big tech behemoth has been forcing unwanted bullshit on the customers for decades, and guess what–people still buy their shit

hilarious they chose this dumb twat as a foil to give voice to maga women who don’t care for pedophiles.

obligatory

they use their AI and data harvesting from myriad security camera footage/social media posts to attach every face at every protest to a name and physical address

can’t do that if you’re wearing a mask and left your phone at home

genuine question: when someone says “i eat healthy,” do you always inject your own meaning of “i don’t use drugs or smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol or do anything else ‘unhealthy’” ?

in other words, to you “i eat healthy” = “i don’t do anything unhealthy”?

because that’s what you just did

Being totally wrecked in your 40s or even earlier is not good.

i concur: in my 40s, totally wrecked. i still consider myself extremely lucky. no ragrets

they have an endless supply of loyal-to-the-death cultist bootlickers just drooling over the opportunity to throw themselves under the bus so trump doesn’t have to put in the effort

i tried monjaro and garuda, seem to have had the best luck so far with pop_os out of the box. running an AMD ryzen 7 9800x3d and RTX 5070-- other distros apparently hated these things

“the bible is the word of god!!!”

“how do you know?”

“it says so right here in the bible!!”

i really wish i could see maga soybean farmers’ faces when they learned that after trump gave their entire china soybean market AND $40B to argentina, he NOW is giving himself $230M of taxpayer money while regular american workers are left holding the bag.

“america first” LOL

if you haven’t, you should watch that movie Going Clear-- it does a good job showing just how difficult it is to deprogram and get people out of a cult–no matter how absolutely fucking ridiculous it seems from the outside.

he could’ve been in fucking prison by now. but that wasn’t what the owner class wanted. so now convicted felon rapist con man cult leader is out of control doing whatever tf he wants and will never face any consequences from the “law”

you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience

you goober.

you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience. the fact that you’re trying to, and then calling me “goober” is quite enough for me to say: best of luck, tiger