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Yup, I'm surprised the bottom hasn't dropped out from these companies yet. It will be like the dot com crash in the early 2000s I'm guessing. And they'll act so surprised...

Have we still learned nothing about enshittification? This implication of this graph is that there’s an entire generation of people being raised right now who won’t be able to do jack shit without depending on AI. These companies don’t need to be profitable right now, because once they’re completely entrenched in the workflows and thought processes of millions of people, they can charge whatever they want. Accuracy and usefulness are secondary to addiction and dependency. If you can afford to amass power and ubiquity first, all the profit you can imagine will come later.

This is why they report "annualized revenue" where they take their best month and multiply it by 12.

Honestly the AI bubble is going to take the entire stock market with it. Over a quarter of the S&P 500 (an index of the 500 and something most valuable companies on the US Stock Market) is made up of tech companies directly investing in the AI bubble, and most individuals and funds these days invest into indexes rather than individual stocks so when a single overvalued market sector making up over a quarter of the market loses most of its value, every stock portfolio is going to lose a shitload of value.

Schools in the US don't all follow the same schedule; it varies drastically state to state, and can even vary by district within any given state.

Yeah that kind of coordination coming from the end of the school year doesn't make sense. Zooming out a bit it looks like there was just a spike in May 2025. It was all useage of a particular model, OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini, which barely registers outside of these short periods of high use in March and then May of 2025. I don't really know what a 'token' is so maybe it's not a 1:1 comparison when useage shifts between different models? Or the data's bad? Or some particular project used that model a large amount in those specific months?

I'd argue the scariest graphs are about the climate, but few people seem to care anymore. We are already at 1.5°C global warming. Coastal regions around the world are almost definitely going under by 2100.

The scariest thing about this sentence is realizing we're already halfway to the next decade

Tbf, part of why shit it so bad is because people are uneducated. If they can’t think for themselves then they’ll just believe whatever bullshit Fox News or the algorithm feeds them without critically thinking about it at all

Despite being from a time before the internet, pocket calculators and smart phones, (my first "calculator" was a slide rule), I'm as quick to adopt and master tech as I find a need for it. I like shiny new tech.

But as someone who also spent a few years teaching math in a my local and very rural school, I was not very generous with the use of that super computer in your pocket in my classroom. The reason being I wanted you to get your fingers dirty and greasy playing and manipulating those numbers yourself. I wanted to you develop a personal relationship with them and have at least a basic idea of the how and why they work.

Modern tech is great if you already have an understanding of how things work and can simply view it as a tool. But modern tech pretty much prevents people from developing the basic understanding of the how and why things work. And we are all dumber for it.

Maybe we should not believe unsourced graphs?