This horrifyingly big bubble needs to sustain the mystique around AI so desperately companies are willing to bribe the "experts" any amount of money to sustain the grift a little bit longer.
People will look back and bitterly laugh their asses off at how obviously devoid of reality the AI hype train was.
Mark Zuckerberg recently told investors that Meta plans to continue throwing money at AI talent "because we have conviction that superintelligence is going to improve every aspect of what we do." In a recent open letter, he described superintelligent AI as technology that would "begin an exciting new era of individual empowerment," despite declining to define what superintelligence actually is.
No better quote illustrates how the US economy is going to keep collapsing into a second great depression along with the nonsense AI bubble it has irrevocably chained itself too.
You can tell it not just from the fact that AI is really only useful as a way to obscure culpability in violence, but from the empty way all the "experts" and "cutting edge tech companies" have blindly lined up behind AI with zero critical thinking involved making it clear as day AI is the perfect empty promise for an intellectually bankrupt society.
AI is a match made in heaven with the catastrophic delusions of our day.