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Social networks are all about making and keeping people angry to make people come back. AI is all about brown-nozing and giving any information with absolute confidence to keep people coming back.

“GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.”

Yeah, feels like. Not actually examples of thinking and doing things at that level.

“These systems, as impressive as they are, haven’t been able to be really profitable,” … “There is a fear that we need to keep up the hype, or else the bubble might burst, and so it might be that it’s mostly marketing.”

That’s the painful truth. No profit, a lot of hype and a market in a 2008 financial crisis bubble.

That’s the standard right wing operating procedure: “We are morally good, therefore we can do no wrong” and that leads to the classic “rules for thee but not for me”. It hurts any logical brain.

Oops, wrong thread.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00550-6/fulltext

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fertility-rate

They’ll expect that and in lot of cases fail, while China, India en EU will try buy everything for cents on the dollar. Then USA starts to lose its dominant position in digital services, what’s now a big part of the export. Or the government can panic and nationalize the whole sector. It’s not sure how things turn out, but it’ll be a weird time.

Studies show AI coding tools make the task slower. It only makes people feel they’re faster, but reality is different. So it’s the snake oil pitch. Nobody can know it doesn’t really work and they keep throwing money at it in an increasingly more desperate “fake it till you make it”. Because, if this thing implodes, it’ll take a large part of the market and economy with it to do a rerun of the 2008 financial crisis.

Even more fun, the stock market is propped up by Nvidia and AI companies buying their chips. If AI crashes, it’s a new financial crisis. And if the market crashes, the layoffs at far were just a warmup.

They remember it too. It’s why they try to keep the bubble going by jumping to the next shiny investor lure. Just a few years it was all deep learning, blockchain and NFT. One guess is that they’ll go for humanoid robots next.

Because managers really like giving contracts to those giving a presentation in an exotic resort and have a great service agreement so all blame for mishaps can be shifted away from their career.

Microsoft style opt-in probably. You can choose between Yes and Later

So that’s how it works. Maybe people should also start harassing payment processors for weapon purchases, buying fossil fuels, oversized SUVs and whatnot until they stop caring.

The word used for that strategy is usually “enshittification”. It happens a lot after digital tech is introduced in a new sector.

Reminds me of the time that Twitter, when it was still Twitter and freshly taken over by Musk, replied to all slightly critical questions with a poop emoji.

Just a few days ago there was the post about a vibe coder where the AI deleted the production database. Let’s hope this will be just as entertaining.

Since the whole tariffs thing lead to boycotting of many American products, visiting the nearest version of Tortuga is downright patriotic

I’ve set my Android to the Glass icon pack. It kinda looks okay if the background is very blurry and featureless. Try setting a busy vacation pick as backdrop and you won’t find any of your apps again unless you set the icons to a size normally reserved for the visual impaired.

It’s a crisis because they want somebody else to pay for it, especially if the AI bubble would pop and all that infrastructure left would stay their responsibility and sunk cost.

Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.