AI is an enormously expensive bubble

This article may be a bit one sided and shrill.  And its very long and sometimes seems repetitious.

But I think it's also an excellent introduction to who is behind what is available in AI, and a look behind multiple curtains.  As I've always thought, it doesn't look good.  A good nutshell of the article is as follows:

These are also — and I do not believe there are any use cases that justify this — not a counterbalance for the ruinous financial and environmental costs of generative AI. It is the leaded gasoline of tech, where the boost to engine performance didn’t outweigh the horrific health impacts it inflicted.

 The spending on AI datacenters has been gargantuan, it will surpass $500 billion before long, boosted by venture capital and the decenter businesses themselves (including Google and Amazon).

Lack of profitability means we end up all paying the bill.

Here's Ziltron diving deeper into AI promises and nonsense.

Here's Ziltron describing the Digital Rot Economy we live in because of Venture Capital.