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This is clearly a bubble.
I don't care if AI is useful, it's not this useful. And it sure as shit isn't going to see the returns they expect.
I run an internal multi-user AI app. It plugs into almost everyone's workflows to make things easier (fetches documents, pulls data, contextualizes stuff). It costs $1 per day per user in token costs .
You need a trillion people using these apps for the current valuations to make sense.
If it's this useful, we're (and them) fucked too because the economy would collapse under falling aggregate demand due to falling wages and layoffs. The "people will find new jobs" won't save us from a shift this large without a depression. And all sorts of things happen during depressions.
I'm struggling to find a scenario in which we are not already fucked. I say we "go for broke" and move on.
Pop this thing.
Yep, pop the bubble and watch these companies deflate instantly. Won't bother me, my fortune isn't tied up in bullshit because I believed my own propaganda. Maybe some of those psychopaths will solve their instant financial problems the old fashioned way, from the 100th floor.
Shit! Don't threaten me with a good time!