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[crunchysteve]

Case in point: A BBC investigation just found that half of all AI-generated news articles have some kind of “significant” issue, whether that be hallucinated facts, editorialization, or references to outdated information.

Ed Zitron, tech journo, has another zinger on how AI doesn't work, isn't a product and is doing nothing for the world but emit carbon at faster and faster rates. If you like well researched, honest (as in admits previous mistakes and links them), deep dive journalism-with-a-capital-J in the tech sector, subscribe to Where's Your Ed At. OpenAI is a scam, its purpose is probably linked in some nefarious way to the Trump coup and Accellerationism - my loose hypothesis based on nothing in particular otherthan OpenAI loses more money than it makes by a factor of 1.25.

My take on this AI hype is it will probably crash the majority of the server infrastructure industry, not just the AI sector. A crash that will be orders of magnitude greater than 1929 and 2008 combined. The bubble is just about guaranteed to burst, even with DeepSeek's potential to reduce running costs.