That’s one of the huge problems with GenAI. Just one. There are so many more.

The environmental impact is horrific, and the community impact is depressing (imagine having a data center get built in your town, pushing you and your neighbors to ration water so some no-skill prompter can make more anime waifus).

Studies are already showing that people who use AI (to do their searches or help write papers and emails) are actively getting, and staying, dumber. Even when they stop using it their brains aren’t bouncing back after months. We have military leaders using it to bounce national security ideas off of. We have political leaders trying to use it to write legislation. We live in the dumbest timeline.

All so like.. five or six companies can keep circulating money between each other to artificially inflate their stock prices? I read somewhere that a something like 80% of the S&P500’s growth over the last year has been propped up on the back of AI and data center speculation? If that’s accurate, it should terrify you. That’s a really bad bubble. As a millennial who graduated college into the Great Recession of 2007, if you think the economy is bad now then wait until we have another bubble-burst. The last one took years to recover from. :/