Maybe they are actively trying to make the crash happen while Trump is still in office to bail them out.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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Look on the upside folks, at least RAM, GPU, and storage are wildly expensive. That's great for the economy and reduces the instances of people being mind-controlled by violent video games!
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crash. and. burn.
seems like they ran out of using AI as an excuse to lay people off and "record profits"
LET THE WORLD BURN! NO SURVIVORS! NO ECONOMY SECTOR SHALL BE LEFT STANDING!
Holy shit, really?
And watch them get crazy bonuses anyways and suffer no consequences.
they will just run to trump to beg for bailouts.
I support abolishing the death penalty except for two cases.
1: war criminals (think what Israel is doing and their disgusting behavior) and anyone committing crimes under the auspices of the state expecting that protection to allow them to escape. 2: high ranking political and economic figures who fuck things up on purpose for profit.
Even mass shooters and serial killers do far less damage to society than a single one of those fucks.
Someone still needs to be the executioner. Nobody should have to carry that burden.
Put them to work. And I mean basic hand labour.
Plowing fields, harvesting crops, buildings houses, paving roads, etc.
The AI tech comps are having too huge losses to be bailed out into a stable position
Majority of CEOs tried to use Ai on the wrong level of their company: at the bottom.
Majority of CEOs discover they are completely incompetent frauds to the point of literally deserving the death sentence
There, fixed the headline.
Majority of CEOs discover something plebs like you and I knew all along the whole time.
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How could they have possibly thought AI would make them money? Lmfao. It sucks power and water just to give wrong answers or generate "art" with terrible attention to detail...
It's simple. They thought they would fire everyone and replace them with chatbots. All the admins? Chatbots. All the bookkeepers? Chatbots. Purchasing? Chatbots. Assembly lines? Robots running chatbot software.
It never occurred to them that training on large datasets does not make for good decision-making. It just makes the chatbot more wordy.
I do think it's disingenuous to downplay how effective AI can be. If you ask certain AI a question, it will give you a faster and better answer than using a search engine would, and will provide sources for further reading if requested.
And the art, whilst not as good or as ethical as human art, can still be high quality.
Being against AI is completely valid, but disparaging it with falsehoods does nothing but give the feeling that you don't know what you're talking about.
It's because they have no idea what "AI" actually is. They think you tell it to make profits, and it just does so. Anyone who has used any kind of "AI" for an hour knows that it's mostly just shit at everything except the absolutely most basic shit.
They have no respect for the work of their employees, so they thought that they could be easily replaced by a computer program. They were so excited by the prospect of handing over ALL of our jobs to AI, that they far overextended themselves.
Now they are going to crash and burn because they bet AGAINST every worker in America, and LOST.
I hope it hurts them really, really badly. We should respond to their financial pain by laughing at them, and taking away their fortunes and their companies, since they have demonstrated so clearly that they can't be trusted to handle the American economy responsibly.
A government bailout was ALWAYS the plan.
Some applications of AI are pretty neat. For example the DeepL translation tool. I convinced my employer to spend money on that. And they make 55 million in profits.
But forcing AI down our throats, like Google does with those horrible auto-dubbed videos? There's no way that will ever be profitable
DeepL isn't what is being touted as "AI" this week, though. DeepL is based on older translation technology (by which I mean "far more reliable").
This is a shell game. Every time there's a wave of "AI" it's some new tech that shills sell as the answer to "real" computer intelligence. (It can never possibly be this, of course, because we can't even define intelligence properly, not to mention making an artificial version of it.) There's certain levels of hype. There's a bubble (usually far smaller than this one, of course). Then the bubble pops and we enter the next AI Winter.
The small use cases for which the new technology is actually useful, however, loses the AI monicker and is just called "software". Like what used to be AI for doing dynamic adjustment on pictures for night shots, HDR, etc. is no longer shilled as AI. It's just ... software that my phone has built in.
So currently "AI" means "LLM" outside of some very specific academic environments. DeepL is just software that (mostly kinda/sorta) works.
DeepL is based on an LLM:
https://www.deepl.com/de/blog/next-gen-language-model
Huh. That's new. When I first tried DeepL it was not LLM. That's an intriguing development.
I will update my mental database accordingly.
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The level of schadenfreude im feeling is almost lethal.
I'm starting to think that most "business" leaders have the skills of a Trump. It's all puffery.
I work in IT, and the accuracy of "The IT Crowd" when it comes to management is scary. How they get anything done is beyond me.
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The only thing I have used AI for is making furry porn. And even then I am really bored with it.
it always ends up making all kinds of porn.
My man.
Sounds good. Then, they'll finally move away from AI and we will all stop having AI being shoved down our throats. I'm sick and tired of all these AI chatbots in places where we don't even need them.
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I'm shocked dot jiff.
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