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How can we make that sooner?
Get a sniper rifle and shoot their generators.
Nah. They lose money every time you use their shitty services. Sabotage would actually improve their cashflow.
use their cheapest plan, burn their tokens, burn the hole in their budget. could backfire though as then "clever analysts" will claim that demand is up and eager bankers will shell out more cash
Why burn tokens when datacenters are much more flammable
The most expensive plan gets you more tokens per unit of currency actually (10x cost for 20x usage), but it's pretty expensive and there's not actual guarantee that they're still losing money on your subscription in 2026 and as you pointed out, being able to show demand and MRR will get them more loans.
Or educate the people around you that "AI" is not the magical fairy dust machine that can do anything imaginable. Might be better than giving them any money at all.
Look to your superannuation plan. Most providers have a conservative plan that's little or no shares. If lots of people transfer the message will be loud and clear. At that point the markets will dump AI and things will eventually normalize. I suspect this is already where the elite have their money, given the present warnings.
Nah.
The more people divest the more appealing these investments are.
So more AI losses per investor. Shares are just like card collecting it only goes up if the demand is increasing. Right now I suspect it's reached maximum insanity and is ripe for a correction.
That's not true.
It can feel that way when you think as shares as numbers on a computer but they represent a share in the ownership of a country and presumably that ownership is actually worth something.
If no one wants to invest because of the vibe, then you can buy the shares for a bargain.
Maybe it's a bit like buying a house where someone was murdered. If you don't care about the vibe then the reduced demand means you can get a bargain.
You can argue the shares are grossly overvalued, and that may be true, but my point is that shares have an intrinsic value and if demand reduces it increases the appeal to other investors.
I'm sure the big players are betting Trump will bailout AI companies. They don't have to worry. So they keep pumping the share prices.
Only by using a significant amount of power and water