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Decided to pull out an important part of the interview. Generative AI is often justified with comparisons to the cost of Amazon Web Services ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) in losses, when its costs and losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse. And there's no post-bubble redemption story.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

Actually genuinely proud that after a year of constantly batting away the "but what about Uber/AWS" talking point I've got it down to a tight 90 seconds. People need to face the truth here and now anyone who asks I can just send them this

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I'd love to hear your take on what Big Tech itself will do after the bubble pops. (I predict turbo-charged enshittification. No new markets to conquer or customers to entice. How else can they fill a multibillion dollar hole but by squeezing the lemon harder?)