It took me a few thought cycles to put down that question.

In my understanding, we, as a civilization, are on a high wire number over a pit of knifes. The AI craze is full throtle as we speak, with conflicting indicators that it may/will cause the worst economical crash ever - becoming third in less than twenty years, where each was always reported as an unprecedented and irrepeatable event - while at the same time infiltrating companies in ways we are still to discover how ruinous may prove and spreading over the internet like a grotesque parasite, rendering services unsuable and leaking sensible data.

If the great AI companies tank (I can only hope) and the services they provide - whatever those may be - faill, how much is it going to affect companies? There is really no sense of consensus; some say it was the best thing ever, others are registering neglictable improvements, others failed miserably and had to return to the original state of affairs.

Then there is the constant attack from agents on the net, rendering websites, more or less important, more or less useable or stealing, destroying or corrupting valueable data.

I've reached a point where I am willing to forego internet and even computers. Even technology in a wide sense. At best, I may keep an air gapped machine, to use for writing and printing documents. But will others do it? And if so, will 8t happen in an organic fashion or will things devolve to a point where something cracks and things just get ugly? Because people are tired. Tired of datacenters popping up like poisonous mushrooms everywhere, destroying everything.

People are getting tired. Everywhere.

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If the great AI companies tank (I can only hope) and the services they provide - whatever those may be - faill, how much is it going to affect companies?

It depends on how far along all this bullshit is when the fall comes.

Right now, the companies that are selling AI to everyone, if it all comes crashing down...fuck em. They released this cancer and they can deal with the consequences (Anthopic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc...)

But the companies that fell for it and actually purchased their product, they'll simply purge the A.I. out of their systems, rehire a bunch of developers, and get on with their lives. And that's really for the same reason that A.I. will crash in the first place:

it's not necessary in order to successfully run a business.

It never has been. We've all been doing just fine for decades, and we'll get along just fine again once all the shit-peddlers go belly up.

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