All of us are waiting for the bubble to burst but will it actually affect anything? I think AI has already done so much irreversible damage to Interest & Society(Kinda). I have seen YouTube channels with 100K subs who create AI Slops(Music, Short stupid essay), Xhitter account which have more than 100K followers which pump out good enough art. Even if bubbles burst these tools will go nowhere. Every day I wake up I feel much shittier. I need to puke. I am seeing everything I love getting ruined by soulless bot or greedy humans who don't love art/music/story etc. I am sounding like a boomer but I am in my early 20s actually. I go to reddit there are Pro AI people laughing at us calling us Luddite or "Decel". I have no hope most of you guys are old folk. I want to leave this fast paced world & go do farming at my hometown. Reading Books made by humans and watching some movies made by humans in a week without caring about this whole hellhole. I was so passionate about computer engineering I really loved technology. I was one of the early adopters of Gen AI who loved Midjounery because it was new & looked kinda magical to me now it looks like the most dystopian shit human yet created. I now resent my degree. I am a replaceable human who has no value. Human evolutioned much just to be replaced by some bots so I can do more slavery for corpo lords who believe that capital is ever growing like a cancer cell.
I don’t know about “help”, but generative AI will essentially vanish. It’s wildly unprofitable and GPUs are an asset with short shelf lives and depreciating value. When VC funds dry up and the bubble pops, data centers will be turned off and gutted to try and recover what little money the owners can get. That means all of the stuff that’s impossible to self host will disappear unlikely to ever return and no one with money will want to invest in the technology for a very long time if ever again. Stuff like video generation, image generation, vibe coding, all of it is way too token heavy to be self hosted.
Non-text AI slop will probably go away for a long time, maybe forever and that’s pretty good. The problem is that the entire tech industry is over leveraged in AI and VC money is running out. AI was something like 40% of the US gdp last year. When that goes away, the results will be calamitous. VC is tied up in AI and AI based startups that are unable to sell, private equity is tied up in AI and tons of small business with little to no growth, and the tech industry employs tons of people who get paid well and are a large part of keeping the service economy growing. Without AI the economy is gonna crash and take out huge chunks of all of these things and many, many people are going to lose their jobs.