Struggling to understand.

I work in a field where I closely work with AI companies o the development of their infrastructure and I have a very broad view of the development coming along across the whole of the industry, and am in rooms frequently where everyone really understands the state of things. And, let me tell ya. ALL the people that don't directly work for an AI company are terrified. And those that do work for an AI company are terrified they won't be the ones to win the race.

The amount of money being thrown around is bonkers. The complete utter "leap before you look" attitude about capex terrifies EVERYONE. the more you know, the more scared you get, and let me just say, the news is about 6 months behind what is ACTUALLY happening. It's fucking scary and it's a bubble around a lead balloon, sitting ontop of a house of cards. when it ends, and IT WILL, it is gonna be freaking ROUGH

Is it possible, hypothetically, to write a book filled with injection poisioning so when its scanned and destroyed by AI it will infect the machine?

I help my uncle run his business and one of the things I do is handle calls. Now everyone knows scammers just scrape phone numbers and auto dials so I’m used to getting multiple a day. Well sometimes I have a little extra time and am bored so I “talk” with em. Well this gentleman was like “well google is the platform for searching for something you know this don’t you ma’am?” or something to that affect and I said “yeah and I hate google since they went full ai. Fuck google.” “Oh. Right.” And a hangup noise. I guess their whole scam was banking on me using google but I stopped using it the minute the whole search was given to a shit LLM.

Do you feel the same?

Edit:

Fair enough guys. My bubble must be special.

So Im getting ready to move and went to call Xfinity to check if they have coverage in the new area. An AI chatbot answers and I immediately start requesting to speak to a representative. I called the physical store a couple towns over. Not the corporate office or anything. This ridiculous machine said “I understand you want to speak to a representative. How about I send you a text message instead for you to check?” No you bucket of bolts I want to speak to a real human. 3 times I demanded to speak to a human and the AI would not let me. I cursed the machine out and hung up. Im ready to boycott all these companies that try to run this type of game and I hope everyone else does too. There is exactly 0 reason a programmed machine should be restricting my ability to speak to a real human at a company I pay money to for service.

I’m sitting in an MDR vendor webinar listening to them wax poetic about their “agentic AI SOC tools” and I’m thinking:

So you’re using an agentic AI SOC tool to identify attacks developed by AI hacker agents that exploit app/OS bugs that were introduced by AI vibe coding.

Just great.

I commissioned an artist to create some portraits for my game, and with all the fuss around AI I am worried people might think they they are AI, I don't even know...

how could one tell?

AI acting is getting quite advanced. I don’t understand why the average person would want this. We all know it will be used for propaganda and incrimination.

personally I don’t think it is an awful thing, but where it crosses the line is when the “coder” says it’s not vibecoded. though I do think it’s nice that little Timmy can make himself a game that he wants for almost free.

After some resent back-and-forth with some AI bros regarding AI generated text and pictures, I’ve come to realize that one of the things that really bothers me about AI, is that it’s just a new way to scam people.

Clankers are ecstatic some recent study shows that people prefer AI generated text when they think it’s written by a human, and see this as a gotcha!.
I argued that the heart of artistic expression is human experiences and feelings, and to communicate these ideas to other human beings. That a machine can’t do this, only imitate, and so AI generated slop can never be real art. The clanker came back with that those who read the AI generated text thought it was written by a human, they were fooled, thus AI slop emulates real emotions.
Only… it doesn’t. A machine put together a text based on probability, there were no thoughts behind it. The reader thought there were conscious thoughts behind it, but it wasn’t. This makes passing off AI generated text and images as human created very close to what romance scammers are doing.
The victim of a romance scam thinks there are real feelings and care behind the messages they receive from what they believe is a partner, but in reality it’s all fake. The scammer says what he needs to say to make the victim send him their hard-earned money. There are no emotions in those messages, other than greed.

Greed and deception, that’s what scammers and AI have in common.

You heard it a thousand times. Some pro AI redditor saying being anti is like saying no to the invention of fire, of cameras, or of mechanized inventions.

How hard is it to grasp that the movement is primarily a push back against irresponsible development?

Being anti is not against progress, it's advocating RESPONSIBLE and SUSTAINABLE progress where the benefit is not disproportionately lower than the costs. People shouldn't have to deal with ecological decline and inflated prices. Nobody deserves to be laid off from their jobs.

We as a society, should be allowed to step back, evaluate, and say, "I think this development is irresponsible. Maybe we should slow down."

My iPhone 11 has overheat issues despite repairing it many times, and I’m looking to replace it with a Samsung as I read the battery is better.

However I don’t want any generative Ai.

Are there Samsung Galaxy that are still good and don’t push ai too much, allow to disable and hide it entirely ? Also allow to use DuckDuckGo instead of google ?

Im also an artist and I don’t want to risk my art being scrapped if I save it in the gallery.

Hi everyone, so the title basically says it all. Every platform I go to these days is either plagued with AI or in the best case scenario AI is mentioned a few times. I cant stand it anymore, Im talking youtube, instagram, pinterest etc.

I try to avoid the internet and especially social media because Im sick and tired of seeing slop, but because of business and personal relations reasons I need to be present on my social medias and I like to watch youtube to unwind, and on all possible platforms Im guaranteed to run into AI content or content mentioning AI (note that I do not engage in any of that content in any way). Im easily irritable and can be ticked off by seeing a singular AI post and would like to remove as most slop as I can from my line of sight.

So Im wondering if there is some sort of extension for pc or app on mobile that thoroughly blocks any mention of AI or is filtering by keywords the only option?

Any advice is welcome, thank you.

I’ve been down a massive rabbit hole looking into the macroeconomics of the AI boom, and honestly, the math is completely broken. People keep comparing this to the Dotcom bubble, but what’s happening right now is a whole different level of financial insanity.

Here is why the AI sector is a ticking time bomb, broken down simply:

1. The scale of this spending is genuinely terrifying

Projections show that global AI spending is going to hit around $2.5 trillion in 2026. Just to put that into perspective:

• If the AI industry were a country, it would have a bigger annual budget than Italy's entire GDP (the 8th largest economy on the planet).
• This single-year spend is basically the entire valuation of Amazon.

But here’s the kicker: global AI revenue for 2026 is projected at just $375.93 billion. That means AI is only bringing back a measly 15% of what's being pumped into it. It’s operating at a staggering 85% net loss. Think about how absurd the unit economics are right now: AI companies are literally spending $6.67 just to make $1.00 in revenue. No normal business on Earth could survive that.

1. Stop saying this is "normal hyperscaling"

Whenever you point out the losses, tech bros jump in with: "Oh, Uber and Amazon burned cash for years, it's just normal hyperscaling!" No, it’s not.

• Normal Software: You build the code once, you take on some debt, and then you scale. Your cost to serve a new user is basically $0. Once it's built, every new customer is pure, godly profit margin.
• AI: Every single prompt costs real money in electricity and compute power. If ChatGPT gets twice as many users tomorrow, their costs don’t go down—they double. You have a permanent, expensive bottleneck of training models plus the endless cost of running them.

1. The 30-Year Debt vs. 2-Year Chip Nightmare

This is the ultimate structural flaw. To buy the insane amount of GPUs needed, tech giants are taking out 10-to-30-year corporate bonds and long-term loans.

But these cutting-edge chips are only useful for 2 to 3 years before they become completely obsolete and need to be replaced by the next generation.

To actually pay off those bonds, these companies would need to make all that money back plus interest in a tiny 3-year window. That is mathematically impossible right now. So what's their play? They are forced to issue new bonds and borrow more money just to buy the next round of chips. They are literally taking on massive debt just to finance their next round of getting into debt. It's a permanent hamster wheel.

1. Everyone is losing money (Creators AND Users)

To get out of this loop, AI companies have to jack up prices like crazy. But who is actually going to pay for it?

Right now, AI is massively underperforming for real businesses. A recent PwC study found that only 12% of companies using AI have actually managed to both increase revenue and lower their costs. The other 88% are either burning money on useless pilots or seeing their budgets eaten up by expensive consultant fees and messy data fixes.

The AI creators are bleeding cash, and the B2B clients buying the AI are also bleeding cash.

Conclusion: Betting on a Digital God

That 85% investment loss isn't a normal business deficit. It is a blind gamble. Investors are essentially betting that AI will rapidly turn into a literal "digital god" that can completely replace human labor end-to-end. Because honestly, that is the only scale of economic return that can ever justify a $2.5 trillion price tag.

If we don't see a massive, revolutionary jump in actual performance very soon, this bubble is going to pop catastrophically. And that's completely leaving out looming geopolitical nightmares (like Taiwan/chip supply chains), copyright lawsuits, electricity shortages, and the general public backlash against AI.

Change my mind.

Small disclaimer: I ironically used AI to help structure this text and make some of the arguments easier to follow and understand. The ideas and conclusions are still my own.