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  • Unfairly flagged, bumped way off front page: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49347207

    It’s a long read with well-sourced numbers that make the point well.

    by Barbing
  • Edit the config of the AI startups you have properly designed to be platform agnostic and make it use the other platforms models, wait the CI green and deploy prod
    by sebastianconcpt
  • This seems to be an increasingly likely outcome. But In the aftermath, like the dot com crash, the debt, and assets are distributed in the liquidation. So it's not the death of AI, or even of ChatGPT. Doctorow wrote about this, but with less bombast than Zitron. https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-27...
    by josefritzishere
  • Probably a cambrian explosion of new startups. New stars are made of the refuse of old ones.
    by PLenz
  • Stock market might dip 20%+, because OpenAI is a large buyer of GPUs, RAMs, servers and disks, every chip company will be impacted from removing huge customer from their revenue.

    then flywheel effect might kick off and impact carriers and construction companies building data centers and delivering things there.

    which impacts investor trust and they might start pulling their money from AI companies, which in turn, they either need to increase prices or downsize their efforts

    by throwaw12
  • Not commenting on the rest of the piece but why is everyone assuming that OpenAI’s executive departures are all voluntary? Sam Altman has shown plenty of willingness to clean house among the top ranks in the past. He isn’t going to shy away from firing a revenue officer if targets aren’t being met.
    by paxys
  • What happens if people realize Ed Zitron has been rage farming to harvest subscription dollars for a few years now?
    by WarmWash
  • Zitron is far more negative when it comes to the utility of LLMs than I am, but dear God would it be satisfying to watch him be proven right on the financials.

    His as-of-late frequent appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, and Scott Galloway's podcast, as well as his collaborations with Ed Elson from Galloway's podcast must feel like a great vindication for him already. Quite impressive for a person who is self-taught in that area, just over the past two years.

    edit: And, of course, the post is flagged. We must bury our heads in the sand again.

    by bogzz

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