How the AI Bubble Will Pop

Re:How the AI Bubble Will Pop by ForHackernews on Thursday October 02, 2025 @08:31AM (#45448804)

The same way that NFTs of ugly cartoons apes were a multi-billion dollar industry for about 28 months.

Edit: People are downvoting this because they think "Hey, that's not right, LLMs are way better than non-fungible apes!" (which is true) but the money is pouring in for exactly the same reason: get the apes now and later you'll be rich!

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Re:How the AI Bubble Will Pop by throaway1988 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:17AM (#45449921)

true but AI replacing search has a much better chance of profitability than whatever value Nft’s were supposed to provide.

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Re:How the AI Bubble Will Pop by senordevnyc on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:36AM (#45450192)

So just like any investment?

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Re:How the AI Bubble Will Pop by tim333 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:41PM (#45455950)

It's not really like punters hoping to flip their apes to a greater fool. A lot of the investment is from the likes of Google out of their own money.

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Re:How the AI Bubble Will Pop by ForHackernews on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:08PM (#45456205)

I don't think Softbank gave OpenAI $40 billion because they have a $80 billion business idea they just need a great LLM to implement. I think they are really afraid of getting left behind on the Next Big Thing That Is Making Everyone Rich.

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