Lately, and as time marches forward, the AI bubble seems to be inching closer to the pop. What this means for the US economy is … up in the air, I guess. I honestly don’t know if it would change anything for me now, or not. I know everything costs way more than it should. I buy seven items for my weekend away from work, and it costs me sixty dollars. Then I put twenty five bucks into my gas tank and it lasts me two weeks?
It doesn’t make any sense.
Despite confidence in LLMs sinking, investors are still trying to force companies to push it into anything and everything, no matter what public perception may be (hint: it’s bad). Like with Mozilla, continually pumping out AI updates to the applause and adulation of absolutely no one.
“Introducing AI, the Firefox Way!”
Bro, nobody asked for this. Nobody cares. Just look at what they’re saying!
It’s almost as if, what you as the consumer think and want, don’t matter, even if it’s your money that supports part of what keeps these companies afloat. It’s really all about what’ll keep the investors … investing. And, I guess that’s a consequence of late-stage capitalism. What happens when there are no longer any consumers, and the billionaires are just shuffling money around between themselves?
Hey, at least we’ve got AI “powered” toys teaching children how to light their homes on fire.
I’ve got to wonder, when does the money have a conscience?
Possibly, never. Money is just paper. A made up “thing” that some assholes decided was important … uh, a billion years ago.
Recently, I’ve been praising ARC Raiders as one of the best games of the past decade, but even that game has deployed AI in a way that’s … sort of exploitative to voice actors. Wherein, Embark licensed some people’s voices, and then used an LLM to generate voice lines, along with a few other features, including the voip system.
See more in this extremely critical Eurogamer review.
I feel like I’ve personally reached this boiling point where I just have … AI fatigue. Last year I ran my own Mastodon instance, and I spent a good portion of my time just banning AI-enjoyers nonstop. Instance level ban here, there, everywhere!
And then I moved to labyrinth.zone and took a break from all of that.
Then I launched a GoToSocial instance where I couldn’t see a federated timeline, at all.
I decided I didn’t like that, and deployed my own Akkoma instance, instead. And … I find myself, still, kinda sorta, not really reading much of the federated timeline.
Because it’s exhausting.
For every person who agrees that slop-posters should be excised from social media timelines, there are five losers deploying python scripted bots that shovel out slop at breakneck speed, and at a fever pitch.
At this point, I’m just waiting for the bubble to go boom. I’m waiting for Sam Altman to get hauled off to prison for being an accessory to manslaughter caused via his own app, and for all the CEOs who have no idea how their companies work, or what technology even is, to cry themselves into a ditch, broke as a newborn baby.
It’s either that, or we’re going to burn as fuel and water consumption boils the entire planet alive.
Sorry, I was spiraling into the dark-zone for a moment there.
It’s not all bad, though. Everyone knows AI sucks ass. Nobody actually likes this stuff. And I’m pretty sure even the billionaires are pretending it’s cool.
Well, maybe except for Mark Zuckerberg, who has once again used his influence and technology to sexually harass women.
And Elon Musk, who, last month, decided that his Nazi-tailored AI is now the Twitter algorithm.
Or Satya Nadella, who has said, as of April 2025, that as much as 30% of code by Microsoft is vibed.
Okay, maybe the billionaires have bought into it, hook, line, and sinker.
Is there anything you’d like as a side-dish with your entree of the bourgeoisie? Maybe some pickles?
Source: https://mkultra.monster/tech/2025/11/14 ... goes-boom/
