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God I hope it just fucking collapses and pulls every other tech company down with them. I'm so fucking sick and tired of coworkers thinking ChatGPT is the most perfect thing that has ever been made. Every single fucking time I'm searching for something I'm asked "Why don't you just ask ChatGPT". They will not shut the fuck up, even when I show them ChatGPT is completely full of shit. Want it to write a simple 40 line script for Excel? Sure, just spend 30 minutes telling it, its code doesn't fucking work, because it's trying to use functions that don't excist. "You're totally right, and so clever for pointing that out! Here's an updated script that takes that into account", still doesn't fucking work.
Sure, just spend 30 minutes telling it, its code doesn’t fucking work, because it’s trying to use functions that don’t excist
I feel this, after searching for packages in apt that not only don't exist for debian, but in general
"But but but didn't prompt it right bro"
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Run out faster
Mid 2026 would be much better!
Or even early 2026. It’s still not too late.
Why can’t they just ask ChatGPT how to make more money?
WTF! How did I miss that and how the hell did that not trigger a giant red flag for any investor with more than 2 neurons???
Because the answer is unlikely to be factually correct and thus unlikely to be useful.
And they are trying to sell that? Dang.
Ask chatgpt how to make them LOSE more money.
And the cool part is that the USA stock market gains for the last couple years are based on OpenAI (and others) promising to buy stuff sometime in the future to build their data centres, which in turn spins into reinvestment in the company and a giant circlejerk.
AKA a Ponzi scheme. If you think watching the Twin Towers collapse in NYC was frightening, wait until this house of cards falls.
if you thought the bank bailouts in 08 were ridiculous, just wait until the AI bailouts
With what money? Trump is adding a trillion in debt every six months and we are running out of allies
are you under the assumption that GOP has any qualms whatsoever about robbing the american taxpayer of every red cent, if it means enlarging the profits of billionaires at the expense of the 99%?
The difference is that for decades the flight to safety has been the US dollar in economic downturns. Now, people can't wait to dump the dollar; the flight to safety has been shifting to gold, silver, and even the Yuan.
When the bubble pops, it'll be be an economic fuckening we've likely not seen.
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No but just like South Africa cannot sell trillions in debt, soon the US will not either because we are quick alienating the world and trading partners. If people do not think the US is credible and viable, nobody buys our debt
This is the most gigantic candy in the coal mine almost nobody is talking about!!!
US debt has been growing like crazy since before I was born, and the biggest way we float it is by selling it with low interest bonds that were always a safe investment which is why so many of the world's richest people parked their money here. Now we are seen as less safe and the US bond market is starting to show a world reversal of that sentiment.
When nobody is buying our bonds, the talk you've been hearing about inflation for the past two years will seem like a welcome respite.
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Let's hope it happens sooner. Same with all the other AI shit.
He sees this as a temporary problem for AI providers, though, as agentic AI becomes more entrenched in daily people's lives, it'll become harder to switch, as the bots should eventually have all your shopping preferences, aspirations, and emotional profile mapped out —perhaps even better than yourself.
God what a dystopian sentence that is.
That's assuming millions of people switch to agentic browsers and use them agentically. A big assumption.
There's easily millions of people in the US alone that do not know any better and will do exactly that.
My conspiracy theory: The plan is to fail and sell the data centers to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.
And also destroy consumer electronics market together with it, so everyone uses their rental clod solutions
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I only don't celebrate because I know they will either be bailed out by the Govt or get bought out by Microsoft for pennies
building my next pc late 2027 then
Bold of you to assume these companies won't just keep price gouging us, they've done it before.
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AI isn't going to dissappear just like crypto, but god damn does this bubble need to implode.
Hardware market is so screwed that not even the ripoff listings on Ali express can keep up.
Wish it were sooner
Sam Altman needs to be thrown in prison for fraud like Sam Bankman-Fried.
Too long, these assholes are fucking up everything from the economy to medicine at great individual and societal cost.
And the downsides?
Not soon enough.
They will just resell all the RAM they just purchased at 5x the cost.
OpenAI: Taps forehead
Modern problems require modern solutions
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May it happen even sooner.
I'm smart enough to know that when the bubble bursts it's going to mess with the world economy, apparently way worse than the 2008 recession, but I'm too stupid to understand why. I just hear people say things and it would be nice to see these assholes get wrecked for once and not just rake in some cash and dip in time while the rest of the world is left to pay the clean up bill for a party they were never invited to.
I mean, I watched the big short and the only thing I understood from that movie was that the bad guys won and everybody else lost. So I am sorta preparing for the worst here xD
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Id say i cant wait, but theyll probably get bailed out and everything will become more expensive as the economy crashes. So thats cool
Are anthropic, perplexity or Gemini as a product making any money?
nope, why do you think google is trying to jam gemini into all its services, and thier AI VIDEO creation is showing up on youtube.
Noooooooo I don't believe so. It's the standard bullshit of burning hard and forgetting to make any actual profit.
God I hope it all collapses before the end of trumps term.
God I hope it all collapses <immediately, and causes> ... the end of trumps term.
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