• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      20 hours ago

      Summary: bubble gonna burst, when not if

      Why: it’s a fucking scam propped up by venture capital

      How: as soon as companies start getting charged the actual token cost they drop their subscription and for some reason investors don’t like this

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        Yup. Cost for copilot at my work just went up and the tone changed from, “Use it everywhere!” to, “Use it where it makes sense.” I mean, that should’ve always been the guidance but as usual the vendors gave them a good show with their shiny new tech, execs came in their pants, and the engineers were expected to make magic happen.

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            This gives me so much hope.

            Maybe one day those who don’t rely on AI would be seen as more valuable since you know, they don’t need an expensive tool and produce the same output, probably even better since it’s slop free.

            Then I realize that our society has made me value people in some shape or form by their ability to produce stuff, and that’s the real tragedy here

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        But the next hype is just around the corner. But this time it’s for realsies, promise!

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          The article gives no specific timeline, but given the amount of Ed Zitron peacocking lately I can’t imagine later than the end of the year. My uneducated guess.

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            With openAI, anthropic, and spaceX all going to IPO within ~6 months of each other, it’s absolutely going to be this year.

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      It’s literally the first two paragraphs lmao

      While the index hit another record closing high, it was only 21 stocks that led it there — just one more than the 20 that propelled the dot-com bubble to its peak before everything came crashing down in 2000.

      Other key red flags behind recent performance include what Hartnett called “speculative” and “exponential price action;” overvaluation of firms that have yet to produce earnings relative to their stock price; a high bull & bear indicator; extreme imbalance and over-concentration, with only 10 stocks comprising two-fifths of the index’s power; and the fact that the vast majority of S&P components (upwards of 330) are now sitting at 20-40% below their previous highs.

      Basically the market conditions are similar to when the dot com bubble burst: few stocks made up majority of the index power, overvalued firms, and majority of stocks are 20-40% below their previous highs.

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        I don’t click on links because the articles are almost always clickbait with walls of irrelevant fluff text, generally.

        Thanks for the conclusion at end cause I didn’t get the stuff above it lol.