Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu...
by sozforex on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:57AM
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Sounds a bit analogous to advertising [creating customers]
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu...
by reg_dunlop on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:59AM
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Sure, if running an advertising campaign resulted in new human beings (who previously did not exist) with new bank accounts and new credit cards to buy the advertised product.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu...
by georgeecollins on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:24PM
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Literal bot has entered the room. I have a fast food chain. I give an applicant a loan to start their franchise, which wouldn't exist if I didn't offer that financing. The franchise is a customer of the chain and wouldn't exist without the loan. New franchises make other potential franchise owners consider working with that chain. That also happens and it is neither illegal nor immoral.
Not saying its good! Just OK under US law and sometimes help companies grow.
I think what makes this tough to be objective about is there is so much about this that is tied to things people hate: AI, tech, obscene wealth, poor regulation. I 100% agree but I do doubt the demand for AI is artificial.
In your example, random customers are shopping at Ford.
In the article, Nvidia is creating the customers, and those customers are then engaging in the scenario you described with the automobile financing.
Nvidia is doing what you describe...plus they're artificially creating the customers who are buying from them, to make other customers want to buy from them.
So it's everything you describe plus a whole additional abstraction of AI...artificially in-demand