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2026-10-29
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o1 does not think or reason; it makes guesses and then guesses about the correctness of those guesses.
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It is not clear that generative AI provides much business value at all.
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OpenAI likely charges only a small fraction of its running costs and can only continue if it keeps raising record venture funding and receiving Microsoft's preferential pricing.
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o1's chain-of-thought approach is not a seismic breakthrough or a step toward AGI.
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OpenAI's annual losses are likely to increase beyond $5 billion as more complex models demand more compute and training data.
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While admitting he can't know for sure, he imagines that if generative AI were in any way profitable for the hyperscalers, they would be talking about the revenue from it, and they are not.
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Once their AI trials end, many businesses will likely stop paying for AI features or stop integrating generative AI into products.
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He fears that the collapse of the generative AI boom could be ruinous to big tech and deeply damaging to the startup ecosystem, and will further sour public support for the tech industry.
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The most likely path for Amazon and Google is a Meta-style 'year of efficiency': reducing capital expenditures, laying people off, and promising to slow investment somewhat, since they still have profitable monopolies to point to, for now.
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2026-10-29
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OpenAI's 2024 end-of-year revenue will likely trend toward the lower end of the $3.5–4.5 billion estimate.
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He hypothesizes that if OpenAI or Anthropic charged prices closer to their actual costs, API prices would rise ten to a hundred times, though he says the amount is impossible to know without the actual numbers.
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
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The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.
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He hypothesizes that a lot of cloud demand from companies integrating AI is driven by investor sentiment, with companies investing in AI to keep markets happy rather than for cost/benefit or actual utility.
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There is a decent chance Microsoft has built data center capacity for Copilot that is not being used.
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OpenAI, which loses over $5 billion a year, will likely lose more in 2025, if it makes it that far.
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Generative AI's power mostly amounts to generating stuff based on other stuff, not intelligence.
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o1 shows that OpenAI is desperate and out of ideas.
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Generative AI has intractable problems because its models are probabilistic and don't know anything, and developers are rapidly running out of training data.
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He hypothesizes that a kind of subprime AI crisis is brewing, with almost the entire tech industry bought in on a technology sold at vastly discounted rates, heavily centralized and subsidized by big tech.
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Unlike with crypto and the metaverse, everybody has joined in burning money on generative AI, an unsustainable, unreliable, unprofitable, environmentally destructive boondoggle sold as AI that will automate everything without any path to doing so.
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2026-10-29
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OpenAI is pushing out o1 (Strawberry) to prove to investors and the wider public that the AI revolution is still here, but what it has is a clunky, unexciting and expensive model.
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Other than AI, big tech has no new growth ideas.
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Generative AI is not in its early days, given over $150 billion spent since November 2022.
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The generative AI hype could have been stopped earlier if the media had held tech companies accountable.
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
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2026-10-29
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Big tech may well choose to cut costs and lay off workers to sustain generative AI spending, burning their companies to the ground.
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2026-10-29
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The end of the generative AI boom will be brutal and damaging and is coming sooner than people think.
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It is a lie that generative AI is inevitable.
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2026-10-29
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People should accept that the money in generative AI isn't there.
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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OpenAI's o1 launch last week, the first real, definitive glimpse of the next generation of models, was underwhelming.
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2026-10-29
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It is a lie that generative AI is artificial intelligence.
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2026-10-29
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In one of several hypothesized scenarios, companies that can't get customers to pay for AI features now, during the boom, will be hard pressed to once bosses stop pushing people to get in on AI.
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2026-10-29
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The tech industry is building toward a grotesque reckoning with a lack of creativity, enabled by an economy that rewards growth over innovation, monopolization over loyalty, and management over builders.
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He has found no company whose generative AI integration has truly benefited its bottom line.
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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It is a lie that generative AI will become artificial intelligence.
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He deeply worries that mass layoffs may be used to fund big tech's AI push, and nothing about recent years makes him think they will do the right thing and walk away from AI.
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Advocates of growth-at-all-costs regard ChatGPT and Midjourney as adequate replacements for writers and artists because they themselves lack creativity.
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Effective accelerationists are excited by generative AI because it lets them pretend to do creative work without learning or doing anything.
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It should not surprise anyone that some venture capitalists worship a machine that can create soulless facsimiles of other people's ideas.
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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It is unlikely that acquiring Jony Ive's hardware startup will add $1 trillion in market value to OpenAI, as Sam Altman claimed.
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In reality generative AI does not seem to be doing much, despite what the media says.
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None of the generative AI uses he just listed (transcription, translation, video editing, summarising, coding help, chatbots) is transformative.
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The intention behind calling these models 'powerful' and using the term 'agents' is to make the technology seem bigger than it is, and the AI companies themselves control those terms.
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Many of the problems with the AI bubble are obvious if you actually use the products or participate in reality, but they do not always fit the editorial message.
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It is highly doubtful that the US military will rely on an LLM that hallucinates a significant portion of the time, such as Meta's Llama in the Anduril helmet.
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AI job-loss scare tactics exist to do one thing: raise the value of Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce and others who are outright lying about agents doing our jobs, and make it easier for AI model startups to raise funds.
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LLM coding tools might affect entry-level software engineering jobs at some point.
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Sam Altman is full of shit, and his reign at OpenAI has been defined far more by empty promises than by any realized dreams.
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These founders (Altman and the other tech leaders discussed in the post) must be asked questions and follow-up questions, and their reckless, stupid ideas must be met with suspicion and a complete lack of the benefit of the doubt.
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Sam Altman should not be making decisions about the tech industry's future, and his claims should not be covered uncritically.
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People should stop listening to anything Sam Altman says.
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Altman needs people to entertain the idea that AI could be considered a 'creature', even if he rejects the notion, because doing so lets him add mystique and hype that distracts from the fact that he doesn't seem to know anything and OpenAI doesn't seem to be innovating.
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People should push back against vague promises about AI.
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In Zitron's opinion, the most plausible of two explanations is that OpenAI simply pirated Scarlett Johansson's likeness and then tried to bring her on board, in a failed attempt to eliminate any potential legal risk.
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If AI companies are scrutinized with suspicion, they will fail to cause further harm.
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Generative AI has yet to prove itself necessary, essential, able to overcome its energy, compute and data needs, or financially viable.
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People should push back on Altman's claims that GPT-5 will be like a virtual brain, a super-competent colleague, or will replace 95% of marketing tasks.
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AI products are built on stolen content and AI models cannot, by definition, know anything.
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Failing to interrogate these people will cause immeasurable harm to the creatives they are stealing from; separately and unconditionally, anyone in the media who believes Altman and his ilk won't come for their work is living in a fantasy land.
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OpenAI should get no credit for claims about what it will do until it demonstrates results.
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Zitron believes AI companies deeply underestimate how perfect the things around us are and how deeply we base our understanding and acceptance of the world on knowledge and context.
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The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.
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Generative models like Sora, DALL-E and ChatGPT do not actually know anything.
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Google's investment in Anthropic was made hoping for a revenue multiplier like Microsoft's, and Zitron argues Amazon's was made in the same vein, though too late to force Anthropic to use AWS as its preferred vendor.
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The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.
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Zitron doubts that generative AI, a product that can only sort-of-kind-of do something, will create trillions of dollars of economic value, at least not in a way that improves anybody's lives.
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Despite thousands of headlines, billions of dollars of investment and trillions of tokens, there are no essential AI use cases and no killer apps apart from non-generative assistants like Alexa.
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
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Zitron, who says he reads every tech publication regularly, is struggling to point to anything generative AI has done other than reignite venture capital.
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Zitron argues that generative AI's inability to reliably generate output is an existential threat that should have smothered AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic early in their lives.
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The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.
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Media jobs producing SEO-driven generic content, like affiliate-link pooling, are very much at risk from generative AI.
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Generative AI models are not learning, understanding or intelligent and can never overcome the limits of a technology without knowledge.
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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People should fear greedy executives automating as much as possible, not AGI.
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Altman likely wanted OpenAI to go in a different direction from the board, one that allowed it to keep scaling unsustainably or that would work against the non-profit's mission.
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Although fears about AGI may be hyperbolic or somewhat premature, there is a real problem in rushing AI into the functioning of the world as the technology currently stands.
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If Altman was fired over AI safety concerns, the firing is likely a watershed moment for the tech industry.
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2026-10-29
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The OpenAI fiasco has shown that the tech industry is entirely beholden to the largest and richest men in technology, and that no amount of theoretical altruism or positive motives can outdo those who control the industry's money and cloud infrastructure.
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2026-10-29
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Poorly tested or error-prone AI deployed in critical infrastructure such as healthcare could have deadly results.
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2026-10-29
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If OpenAI, which is allegedly on track to generate $1 billion a year in revenue in the next year, is not profitable at that scale, it is likely that Altman's mission has been to make the company more money rather than develop an AGI or build a sustainable company that does not have to keep living on venture funding.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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It feels especially plausible that Microsoft, now that Altman and Brockman lead its advanced AI division, will treat OpenAI as a competitor rather than a partner.
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2026-10-29
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OpenAI may become the most important company in Silicon Valley history, for its technology and for the controversies it creates.
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2026-10-29
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A major employee exodus from OpenAI is highly likely, perhaps inevitable.
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2026-10-29
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Emmett Shear's tenure as OpenAI CEO could be as short-lived as Mira Murati's.
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2026-10-29
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The aftermath of Altman's firing will be messy and will likely include lawsuits, investor and employee revolts, and internal fracturing at OpenAI.
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2026-10-29
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If a mass walk-out of OpenAI staff to Microsoft occurs, Microsoft would have acquired everything besides OpenAI's IP, which it presumably could buy later from a vastly diminished and desperate OpenAI.
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2026-10-29
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Microsoft could cut its losses on OpenAI and walk away.
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2026-10-29
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The OpenAI episode marks the beginning of a reckoning that forces Silicon Valley venture capital to face the limits of growth-at-all-costs.
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2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.
2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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His thesis about SaaS and generative AI holds unless enterprise software spend or generative AI's capabilities and costs change suddenly and remarkably.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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Microsoft 365 Copilot likely loses money per user, as GitHub Copilot was reported to.
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2026-10-29
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The enterprise SaaS market is the 'commercial real estate' of a Subprime AI Crisis, tied to an unprofitable, unsustainable technology.
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2026-10-29
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If Salesforce is not growing, the rest of the SaaS market should be terrified.
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2026-10-29
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Every generative AI product we have seen from Big Tech has been underwhelming.
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2026-10-29
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Cloud providers will likely see some revenue growth as organizations build their own AI integrations.
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2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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SaaS companies may engage in a race to the bottom with dramatic AI tool price cuts while costs stay flat or rise.
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2026-10-29
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He thinks SaaS companies are doing their best to hide that their generative AI isn't selling at all and costs more money than it makes when it does sell.
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2026-10-29
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Microsoft 365 Copilots are probably as unprofitable as GitHub Copilot.
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2026-10-29
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Generative AI kind of felt like the perfect SaaS snake oil, a magical new way to indefinitely charge customers for things they already should have.
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2026-10-29
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Microsoft will likely only ever make money from AI by selling compute.
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2026-10-29
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If he had to guess, Glean is about as deeply unprofitable as a SaaS company has ever been, and there is no real turning that around.
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2026-10-29
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If AI revenue never materializes, SaaS companies will face having run out of ideas for growth.
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2026-10-29
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Nobody really seems to be able to explain why or how generative AI is the next big thing.
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2026-10-29
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The problem with generative AI might be not that it is useless but that, as a technology, it just isn't a hyper-growth market or industry-changer, no matter how many hundreds of billions are put into it.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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Altman seeks a $100 billion supercomputer from Microsoft not because generative AI will improve, but because current AI is not world-changing and massive spending is his only way to meet his promises.
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2026-10-29
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Sam Altman is the archetypal growth-obsessed CEO, an unqualified lobbyist posing as a technologist.
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2026-10-29
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It has become painfully apparent that the tech industry might have run out of big, sexy things to sell, and the disruption tech is known for depended on there being markets to disrupt and ideas to fund.
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2026-10-29
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Generative AI does not appear to do anything useful, despite companies hoping it will be the next AWS.
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2026-10-29
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LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude can generate images, quickly query datasets (with no guarantees of accuracy) and craft poetry, but there is no endearing reason to pick one up and use it every day.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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Microsoft Recall presents an unacceptable risk to consumers.
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2026-10-29
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He doesn't think that anyone in big tech is prepared for the bubble to burst.
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2026-10-29
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The Rabbit R1 and Humane Pin raised incredible sums of capital on the vaguest of ideas to build products that range from extremely bad to potentially fraudulent.
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2026-10-29
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When the AI bubble bursts, OpenAI and Anthropic will probably be absorbed by the big tech companies that invested in them, as Microsoft absorbed Inflection.
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2026-10-29
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Sundar Pichai and Liz Reid are forcing generative AI into Google Search, even as it actively misinforms their customers, for the same reason Zuckerberg pushes it: the hope of getting more hyper-growth.
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2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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It feels like the core issue of hallucinations almost kills the concept of automation with generative AI, since it is automation only insofar as you can trust it.
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2026-10-29
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It feels like the actual output of tech companies' crypto, metaverse and generative AI efforts is not translating into meaningful products, even though it is still being monetized.
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2026-10-29
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It feels like it could be an economic panic in itself if tech companies don't have a new growth driver and they turn on generative AI.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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Had Sam Altman not been mythologized, there would have been far less of a chance that investors and the media took OpenAI this seriously, and questions about profitability and sustainability would have been immediate problems to address rather than 'issues' to be 'mitigated'.
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2026-10-29
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Every article about OpenAI should mention the brittleness of its business and Sam Altman's half-truths.
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2026-10-29
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Meta's AI product's only differentiating feature is that its 500 million monthly active users are helping kill the planet by generating meaningless slop.
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2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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Google's October 30, 2024 earnings will likely make Wall Street a little worried.
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2026-10-29
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Moving the Gemini App team under DeepMind might be kind of smart, but it also suggests there is a degree of disarray at Google that is not going to get better in a hurry.
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2026-10-29
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Google's medium-to-long-term business prognosis is likely worse than its near-term outlook.
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2026-10-29
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Google very likely views AI as fundamental to its future growth and relevance.
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2026-10-29
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There is a compelling case that Google is in a slow, painful collapse.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.
2026-10-29
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Despite all its data and talent, Google has put the laziest version of a Large Language Model on top of a questionably-functional search product as a means of impressing shareholders.
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2026-10-29
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If Amazon is only making $5 billion in revenue from AI, its only shiny new thing, sold on the world's premier cloud platform while businesses are desperate to integrate AI, there is little chance Amazon's AI business suddenly turns into a remarkable revenue driver.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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Generative AI is a con that passes just well enough to fool finance and the media.
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2026-10-29
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The longer the AI bubble keeps inflating, the worse the consequences of its collapse will be.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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Generative AI has never had the kind of meaningful business returns or utility that underpins something meaningful, but it has enough to make people give it a try.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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OpenAI and Anthropic don't care about your safety and don't have any way to get to AGI.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.
2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The generative AI bubble might be bursting.
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2026-10-29
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OpenAI may fail to meet its current 2025 revenue projections.
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2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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ChatGPT's popularity is mainly due to nonstop media coverage; without it, ChatGPT and the AI bubble would have petered out.
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2026-10-29
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Generative AI has never resembled AGI and barely suggests a functional industry.
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2026-10-29
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Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu should give a full, honest explanation of what happened with GAMA and Cyber Manufacture.
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2026-10-29
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Zitron believes Jesse Lyu owes the reporters he has talked to and the users who have paid him money thorough explanations of what happened to his previous ventures, what happened to the funds those ventures raised, and why he has so thoroughly sought to obfuscate their existence.
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2026-10-29
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Zitron wants Jesse Lyu to apologize to anyone who invested in GAMA and to the multiple people Lyu has attempted to gaslight by suggesting he had no relationship with the company.
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2026-10-29
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Rabbit Inc.'s forfeited status strongly suggests it cannot currently do business in California, where it is headquartered.
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2026-10-29
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A safety-minded OpenAI should be investing in mitigating hallucinations.
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2026-10-29
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OpenAI operates without regard for user safety and deliberately misrepresents that it is on the path to AGI.
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2026-10-29
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Generative AI's only real innovation is letting scam artists hype companies with vague promises of powerful automation.
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2026-10-29
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The openai screen doubts the attribution.
2026-10-29
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The author would argue that the Bored Ape Yacht Club has a better chance of delivering its roadmap than OpenAI's Strawberry has of giving LLMs reasoning, if only because a blockchain game would ostensibly use technology that exists.
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2026-10-29
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The media should push back on AI claims and demand real, tangible evidence.
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2026-10-29
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The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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OpenAI does not really care about safety.
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2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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The openai screen reads the claim differently.
2026-10-29
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other generative AI companies should be treated with suspicion as engaged in deception, theft and destruction.
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2026-10-29
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Generative AI models are not gaining reasoning or sentience and are not on the path to superintelligence.
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2026-10-29
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The author feels that the tech industry is in the most bizarre cognitive dissonance he has ever seen, as company after company simply lies about its intentions and the power of AI.
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