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Bev54

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26. The AI bubble is on the cusp of a crash

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:08 PM

12 hrs ago

It has not lived up to what it said it could do and those companies that replaced employees with AI are regretting it and hiring back. It only works as a tool to help employees not replacing them. All these data centres are just going to be eyesores on the planet.

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Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies (NYT, 6/1/2026) [View all] highplainsdem 18 hrs ago OP

No. QueerDuck 18 hrs ago #1

Why not? highplainsdem 18 hrs ago #3

A 50% STATE TAKEOVER of private companies is not the answer... it's overreach. QueerDuck 13 hrs ago #24

Ownership of an AI built on public data is just. It gives the public class action standing in federal court. ancianita 12 hrs ago #28

How does that help pay for the food, health, and shelter of the tens of millions of people who will lose their jobs Doodley 18 hrs ago #2

It isn't enough. Ideally, generative AI models trained illegally should be destroyed, with new legal AI models highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #4

I understand what you are saying, but the genie is already out of the bottle. This is where we are, and Doodley 17 hrs ago #6

Just using AI dumbs users down and makes them dependent on AI. There are few if any good uses highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #9

With all due respect, have you used it much? Doodley 17 hrs ago #14

I've used it enough to know how it works and how tempting it can seem. And I've read thousands of highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #19

With all due respect, I don't think you understand how incredibly useful AI is. Doodley 16 hrs ago #21

With all due respect, you asked AI to give you ideas and tell you where to shop. IMO that's an example highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #22

With all due respect, you are making a lot of assumptions. Doodley 14 hrs ago #23

My "assumptions" were based on what you'd told me. highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #29

Try all it's tech we paid for. In-Q-Tel funds or should I just say CIA. Blue Full Moon 17 hrs ago #5

I don't want to own it. I want it to not exist. WhiskeyGrinder 17 hrs ago #7

Agreed. MineralMan 17 hrs ago #8

Same here. But as I said above, in the meantime I like seeing regulations and penalties on AI suggested highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #11

YES! Emile 17 hrs ago #10

sigh... WarGamer 17 hrs ago #12

It isn't true that "Training is Learning, Not Storing" - that's AI company propaganda to try to defend highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #15

Thanks for the information. There is also a lot of people who have formed an opinion about AI Doodley 16 hrs ago #16

See reply 15. highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #20

Well, he's halfway there. BlueTsunami2018 17 hrs ago #13

Bingo!!! Doodley 16 hrs ago #17

While everyone is debating the issue xuplate 16 hrs ago #18

With what? 40% don't have enough cash to cover a $1000 emergency expense. thesquanderer 5 hrs ago #30

Norway has a sovereign wealth fund on oil and they're almost always ranked at the top of the list of happiest nations. Uncle Joe 13 hrs ago #25

The AI bubble is on the cusp of a crash Bev54 12 hrs ago #26

Didn't Cervantes Write A Book About Bernie? ColoringFool 12 hrs ago #27