"The Subprime AI Crisis" - Ed Zitron on the bubble's impending collapse - eviltoast

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or “hating,” but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom — is (as I’ve said before) unsustainable, and will ultimately collapse. I also fear that said collapse could be ruinous to big tech, deeply damaging to the startup ecosystem, and will further sour public support for the tech industry.

Can’t blame Zitron for being pretty downbeat in this - given the AI bubble’s size and side-effects, its easy to see how its bursting can have some cataclysmic effects.

(Shameless self-promo: I ended up writing a bit about the potential aftermath as well)

  • zbyte64@awful.systems
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    3 months ago

    I worry this is going to leave a crater in the software industry that will take a decade to fill.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Software dev has been an over saturated market for ages now, even before the recent AI craze.