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When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:

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[–] Zkuld@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Hmm and what about the everyday user who needs to ask AI how long to cook potatoes? What will they do after the pop?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They'll ask their parents, or look up cooking instructions on actual websites.

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cue 8 paragraphs of "I first learned to cook potatoes with my grandfather back in..." and every reader screaming "Oh my god just get to the recipe..."

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another advantage of cookbooks. (There are good ones, but a lot are junk.)

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

the same way they did in 2021

[–] omarthemediocre@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, maybe using indexing website with fraction of the compute power needed where the answer will be first result anyway.

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

How will I remember to put avocado in my BBQ sauce, without AI?

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[–] rock@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago (10 children)

What does it take to pop this bubble? So many people are calling it a bubble but what actually makes it pop?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

🎼You can't stop, techno pop 🎷🎹

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

This is a great question. Eventually the companies must run out of gullible investors, right?

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I have been wondering the same thing. Since we have a bubble called TSLA that still hasn't popped, that I know of. And "AI bubble" seems a much more diffuse and hard to define concept, in comparison.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Datacenters and GPUs will be sold for pennies on the dollar, both due to an incalculable used supply, as well as plummeting demand due to the inevitable economic depression.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

will NVIDIA suffer from the pop, if they invested 100bn they expect ROI TWICE AT LEAST BACK.

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[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The sad thing is those GPUs are in specialized boards with specialized servers and cooling, and not really good at the kind of work consumers would want it for, assuming you could even get drivers. So most all of those GPUs will realistically get scrapped if the bubble pops.

Maybe we'll see the EPYC CPUs get sold secondhand at least, those are socketed.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

I understand the failure rates for the GPUs is huge. The duty cycles tend to be high, with power and cooling issues.

(Actually the power issues are wild and can destroy power distribution and generation equipment. "Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters" 21 Aug 2025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14318)

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There are plenty of these, yes. But there are also plenty of consumer-grade GPUs being used for it too.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I mean AI has been doing what its been doing without much porn so far. Im pretty sure it will shift to that. Its what has pushed every technology before forward.

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You just aren’t going to the right websites.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

oh I know there is some but many of the official ones don't do it but they will. oh yes they will. thats right. you know what I like. you need the money.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

The future is AI powered uncensoring of JAV. It's already started anyway.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm all fine already with my RX 6400.

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