An #AIRebound? In this economy?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXJyEh9jk6l/

I think this is completely wrong. Companies are just going to stick with delivering poor quality products until after the market finally collapses and we hopefully return to basing investment decisions and capitalization on some shred of reality.

#AIBubble

This guy is completely right about #OpenAI going bust, but #AI isn't going away completely, as nice as that would be.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXLonuEAEEA/

It will collapse into niches that actually make sense and then grow from there.

#AIBubble

Been sitting here waiting for three years for the #AIBubble to collapse.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXXgXSykiUC/

#meme #water #drinkingwater #problem #future #environment #energy #software #datacenter #cooling #aibubble #capitalism #politics #bigtech #protest #resistance #civilization #humanity #survival #economy #system #matrix #climate #crisis #nature

#cartoon by Daniel #Medina

He's probably right...

"Anthropic’s growth story is a sham built on selling subscriptions that let users burn anywhere from $8 to $13.50 for every dollar of subscription revenue and providing a brittle, inconsistent service, made possible only through a near-infinite stream of venture capital money and infrastructure providers footing the bill for data center construction.

Put another way, Anthropic doesn’t have to play by the rules. Venture capital funding allows it to massively subsidize its services. The endless, breathless support from the media runs cover for the deterioration of its services. A lack of any true regulation of tech, let alone AI, means that it can rugpull its customers with varying rate limits whenever it feels like.

If Anthropic were forced to charge its actual costs — and no, I don’t believe its API is profitable no matter how many people misread Dario Amodei’s interview — its growth would quickly fall apart as customers faced the real costs of AI (which I’ll get to in a bit). If Anthropic was forced to provide a stable service, it would have to stop accepting new customers or massively increase its inference costs.

Anthropic is a con, and said con is only made possible through endless, specious hype. Everybody who blindly applauded everything this company did is a mark."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #Claude #LLMs #Chatbots #AIBubble

@Zitron via Bsky:

"Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs."

"Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse"
Where's Your Ed At newsletter
4/21/2026

https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/

#AI #AIhype #AIbubble #EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #technofascism #technoligarchy

Some updates on my website maintenance woes:

Starting last July, I built a new wiki for my translations of German folk tales. And soon after I started doing so, it started to experience frequent, hours-long outages. I started to research possible causes, but eventually concluded that the primary cause were so many requests from anonymous #scraper bot networks deserpate for new scraps of data to feed into their #LLM models that the wiki simply couldn't cope. Even when I increased my hosting plan _twice_ last September, this only served to make the outages less common - not to stop them.

In March, I drastically reduced the amount of work I did on the wiki, as it was functionally complete - I had added more than 700 folk tales to it by that stage. Sure, there are always further tales to add - I didn't stop translating those tales, after all. But now I am adding 10-20 tales per month, not 100+.

And funnily enough, I haven't noticed any major outages for this past month - or even minor ones. I guess the scraper bot networks noticed that I don't have that much new data to steal, and largely moved on to new prey they can harass.

So, what can we conclude from this?

If you are maintaining a website that produces lots of new content on a regular basis, you _will_ get hammered by these scrapers. robots.txt will do nothing - these use anonymous, ever-changing IP addresses. Maybe you can thwart them with #Cloudfare or similar technologies which I haven't tried out (I am a rank beginner when it comes to website administration, to be frank).

Otherwise you will either have to slow down the publication of new content, pay lots of money for an oversized hosting plan, or live with periodic outages until the #AIBubble bursts, and there is no longer a trillion dollar business case for scraping every website a thousand times a month.

https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page