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Massive anxiety about the AI bubble (hexbear.net)
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This has been cooking for a while, like since the alarms started getting sounded about an AI bubble; but I had a dream recently where the AI bubble popped, and we were all happy, and the industry really did bottom out, but then peter goddamned thiel ends up basically owning the entire market share, then buys up artistic supplychains and stores and shuts them down entirely to force people on the slop machine.

and reflecting on it, that's when i kinda came to the conclusion: that's a real ass possibility.

I think of the 2000s dot com bubble, levelled the landscape, and the companies that survived and the ones that emerged in its wake had staying power, and dominate the technological social landscape to a frankly dangerous degree

the money behind this AI shit is immense, and some of these guys are deranged enough to just force the matter, like who could even contest this?

I'd love to get talked down from this position if it's more unreasonable than i think but... yeah im kinda anxious about it now.

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

peter goddamned thiel ends up basically owning the entire market share, then buys up artistic supplychains and stores and shuts them down entirely to force people on the slop machine

I don't think this is a reasonable concern. People draw on their iPads, is Peter Thiel just gonna buy Apple? He can't just buy out every pencil manufacturer or every source of paint either. Even if he did, new ones would pop up immediately because the demand would still be there. There's a ton of capital in art supplies as well, those guys won't just let Peter Thiel kill their industry.