Doesn’t matter. The regime got what they wanted out of this. The data centers are up, the tech is there, they will just snap it up cheap for use in surveillance and fabricating evidence of dissenters.
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No shit! Let that sink in, I'm waiting. If the world don't want to learn from it's mistakes, let it burn.
Q3 2027 is when the house of cards falls. I have been saying this since 2025 and I will continue to make this prediction based off of loan and investment terms.
I've been making the comparison to the first synthesizer in 1897. It was so huge, that it took up the basement of an entire city block in NYC. It was enormous, and relatively useless but it worked...technically. But 60 years of development later, and it can be put in a suitcase and carried around.
I see data centers and AI the same way. Sure, we can technically do it, but it's big, unwieldy, and wasteful. It clearly isn't ready for prime time.
Go back to the drawing board, address the real problems, including regulations, and get back to us in a decade or two, when they've figured out how to do this properly. Because right now it's a monstrosity that's more of a curiosity than an useful product.
Come on, burn faster!
That long? Sigh…
He’ll probably tell Trump he’ll help win the election and get all sorts of tax payer handouts.
It will be a race which AI company holds out longest. All of them are making losses that no company can survive, and if they rise their prices enough to cover the costs, they will basically lose all their customers. Who will then struggle to hire the people back who still know how to do things without AI.
Then Google wins? Since they have the ad business sonar least they are making some money.
I think they could significantly lower their costs if they turn their focus away from the race to "AGI." But, their valuations don't really make sense unless investors believe they will achieve AGI.
Recent models are quite good. Like gpt 5.6 sol. Even better than mythos 5.
Yet still hallucinates mass bullshit and can't count, can't architect, and can't write a decent test
How is this a response to a comment about AGI?
LLMs are not currently, nor ever will be, anything remotely resembling AGI. AGI is still entirely within the realm of science fiction, like teleportation or time travel.
The "best" one I've tried is the latest Opus. I don't trust any of them to use for real work, so I mostly just play around with a local Qwen 3.6 27B or Deepseek v4 Flash. I have heard OpenAI's latest models produce less bloat than Anthropic's.
I should say I do find LLMs useful as a kind of search agent (both web and large unfamiliar code bases). And GhidraMCP is pretty cool (maybe just because I don't have much experience with reverse engineering).
"Grim" says ye.
"He he hee ha haw ha haaa haaaa heh haa ha ha ha hee haa haaaa haaaaw...!" says I.
How can you run out of something you never had?
Oh they had plenty of other people's money. They have to burn someones money very very fast
I seen somewhere that an ai scientist predicts ai will completely take over in 2030. That seems like horse shit.
How can we make them run out in mid-2026?
Fire
I was under the impression that they had an extremely large amount of negative money.
If Skyrim has taught me anything it's probably integer overflow
Since their current cash wouldn't fit in a 32-bit integer that'd mean it's at least 64-bit. An integer underflow would require a debt of over 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 units-of-currency before it rolled over to positives.
Man, this bubble is even bigger than I thought! /s
Mid-2026? How about right now? :)
That’s the same thing… oh dog time is flying
my guy asking the real questions!
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Oh boy, I can't wait for my tax dollars to go to bailing them out instead of food and healthcare
Don't worry, we can't bail them out this time. There's just not enough money, each bailout is exponentially bigger than the last one and this time the bubble is bigger than the rest of the global economy
We'll probably destroy the global economy buying them just a few more months anyways though
It's also arguably the only thing propping up the American economy right now. They don't have anything to bail with, if the AI bubbles goes on fire. Their economy may well come tumbling down in short order.
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didnt the us gov already get like 5% of the company, laying the groundwork of they cant fail bullshit ?
Ah right, they're "too big to fail".
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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.
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Yes but you have forgotten about the technique used by the most skilled and intelligent company leaders to consistently outperform all predictions for years now: Corruption
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