The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/the-ai-bubble-is-already-popping-we-just-dont-know-it-yet/5282004

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59 points · 23 comments · view on lemmy.world

23 Comments

brem@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 32d (2 replies)

Sure.. the AI bubble pops, but can it lock....?

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 32d (1 reply)

A lock is nothing but a precisely designed false-knot waiting to be tugged on in the right place.

WellsiteGeo@masto.ai · 4 pts · 32d
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 32d (2 replies)

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 32d (1 reply)

just keeping edding yourself with small strokes of zitron

fullsquare@awful.systems · 7 pts · 32d

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 32d (2 replies)

But.. the line only goes up, now, right?

BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 32d

Temperature, days without rain, unemployment, measles cases, war casualties, tons of goods disposed as waste, child poverty, plastics production, mass incarceration, wealth stolen from the people, species extincted, bots posting propaganda.

It seems like the project of driving up the line is going great by most metrics. 👍

mawhrin@awful.systems · 3 pts · 31d

sometimes you neet to transform the graph to achieve the expected results, but generally yes.

fullsquare@awful.systems · 7 pts · 31d (2 replies)

It ain't over until Oracle implodes and Larry Ellison goes broke

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 31d (1 reply)

Oracle looks like it isn't imploding like a neat full rack of pins always look stoic and eternal the moment before the bowling ball hits.

EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 2 pts · 28d

I had to read that twice, but yes, exactly.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 31d (3 replies)

Can bubbles pop slowly? 🤔

dgerard@awful.systems · 11 pts · 31d

yes, routinely. the CDO bubble of the 2000s took from 2006 to 2009 to deflate, with first warnings in 2005

HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d

Can a dam crack and leak before it bursts?

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 31d

yes

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d (1 reply)

Popping? We just reinflated that bitch today.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 31d

Hot Air Moving Around does not equal The Puncture Being Healed

nek@hear-me.social · 0 pts · 31d (7 replies)

@supersquirrel Very true and very much not a reason to rejoice, since everyone with a retirement plan or an adjustable mortgage, or really any participation at all in the global economy, not only the US', will suffer, and be forced into harsher living and working conditions in the aftermath - for several generations.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 31d (6 replies)

Very true and very much not a reason to rejoice

but a very good reason to read James Joyce!

If only for the rhyme of it.

nek@hear-me.social · 0 pts · 31d (5 replies)
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 31d (3 replies)

JJ is IRISH take that back! ...and he isn't dead for God's sake! He just needs a little whiskey thrown his way and he will come around again!

nek@hear-me.social · 1 pts · 31d (2 replies)

@supersquirrel Holy crap I erred big time. I used to drink Jameson's at James Joyce Pub for crying out loud.

I have insoluble brain problems.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 31d (1 reply)

throws a glass of whiskey in your face

FINN AGAIN!!!

Also can you watch this salmon cooking for me? brb

don't you even think about trying even a tiny bit!

nek@hear-me.social · 1 pts · 31d

@supersquirrel I am awakened by that.

o7___o7@awful.systems · 1 pts · 31d
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