this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
693 points (99.6% liked)
Fuck AI
6598 readers
1401 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Good, all AI in its current form does is make people lazy, stupid, and possibly crazy. It has a place, but not as a pale shadow of the dot com bubble.
doesnt seem to have a place, except to warm up the planet and cause pollution. p
The "dot com bubble" led to where we are today. Yes there was a massive speculative bubble but 20ish years later look at the number of Trillion dollar companies that came out of it, how ubiquitous the technology is, and how impactful its been on global society.
The potential for those outcomes is why Venture Capital is willing to light hundreds of billions of dollars on fire.
there was value in the dot com though, AI has no such thing.
People who say this sound just like the people who are still arguing against Solar Panels and Wind Turbines. Neither group wants to accept progress or change and both groups are slowly being crushed by reality.
They're standing shoulder to shoulder with the group of luddites who killed an SMR project by using arguments that were debunked 50 years ago in the hopes that everything will go back to using coal.
The point I was trying to make is that the vast majority of the dot com craze was grift. So is the current AI boom.
Yep, a lot of the .com bubble was nonsense and so is the current AI bubble.