Mastodawn

I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in human history, in pursuit of a bizarre fantasy that if we teach the word-guessing program enough words, it will take all the jobs.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/always-great/#our-nhs

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CaliCarol 2d ago

@pluralistic

I have been describing AI as a business cult. CEOs signing up to spend mountains of money, jettisoning any analytical discipline. I chalk it up to psychosis born of unchecked monopoly. They're all at the Davos circle jerk getting played by the most sociopathic grifters among them.

What could go wrong?

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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

@jawarajabbi @pluralistic
Leveraging FOMO has always been the key skill of grifters. Never has that been more evident than with the rush to “AI” everything.