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'Exactly how the dot-com bubble burst': A market research firm says keep an eye on this AI warning sign
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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Exactly. And you know who's bad at predicting things? Large groups of people.
It's a fractional bubble at best. Unlike the Dot Com bubble, which invested in things like URLs that no one wanted and WorldCom's fiber layout, the buildouts and investments being done on spec aren't of the kind that are single-use. Data centers are always in demand, anyway. Storage and cloud compute are always in demand. Electricity is in demand. If AI flops tomorrow, other than 3 over-valued companies employing....a few hundred people, and idiot investors in those companies, the entire economy isn't yet entirely dependent on LLMs exactly because they suck at most of what they do anyway. Government contracts are stabilizing the whole industry anyway, something absent from the Dot Com era.
Edit: You know who IS a risk? All the dipshit startups that think putting a wrapper on a CustomGPT was a good business model, and took out loans for that rather than split equity. That's going to be your first indicator to look for, and it's wavering because, as it turns out, 99.999999% of those ideas are stupid.
History is the best teacher, and a detailed look shows these are only alike in that they are tech-related.