It was something I suspected would happen, but the AI hype machine is roaring at full speed once again.
People are generally rejecting AI. That isn’t just my opinion. There is research out there showing exactly that. This is contrary to the pie in the sky predictions pushed by AI companies where they kept saying that everyone is going to be completely dependent on AI in the future. So, it is no surprise that OpenAI is set to lost $14 billion this year alone. It’s also not surprising that another $100 billion AI deal stalled. Other investments in AI sparked a $1 trillion selloff in the markets last week.
All of this is deeply problematic for AI companies who are hoping to attract suckers- er, investors for their companies. All of those predictions are not coming true and investors are growing increasingly skeptical that they’ll ever see a return on their investments. So, what is the generative AI industry to do? Well, rely heavily on the one thing that has made the line go up: firing up the AI hype machines. In response, the AI hype machine has been in full swing over the last few days. Here are some of the headlines I’ve been seeing lately:
AI could trigger a global jobs market collapse by 2027 if left unchecked, former Google ethicist warns
Ex–Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation
America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers
Yup, the bullshit artists are really kicking things into high gear – no that this is anything new necessarily. In fact, I would argue many of these wild claims are just recycling the old claims. There have been predictions about the impending job market for a long time. It was supposed to happen by 2024 and 2025. Obviously, that never happened, so they just keep advancing the year because, you know, this time is different (they swear!).
For the claims of not bothering to do something because of AI, that’s nothing new. We’ve seen articles proclaiming that people shouldn’t bother looking at retirement because AI will kill us all anyway. That headline is just a slightly different riff off of that AI meme.
The rest of the headlines are just more vague variations of the previous obviously bullshit claims.
What’s more, the companies aren’t even bothering to hide why they are bullshitting people some more. Make line go up!
Got $5,000? 2 Unstoppable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks to Buy and Hold for Years
A Once-in-a-Decade Investment Opportunity: The 2 Best AI Stocks to Buy in February 2026
Yes, they really did use the once-in-a-[fill in the blank] line again. Not the first time I’ve seen it, but I’m happily documenting this stupid headline finally.
The punchline to all of this is the fact that the mainstream media publishing this obvious nonsense is not even batting an eye over the fact that they are being duped again. Hey, if an “AI expert” said it, then it MUST be true! No time to question it, we got a publish button to hit! On that note, for the mainstream media, here is your award for all that hard work:
In fact, even after I publish this article, the mainstream media will still not get a clue that they are getting absolutely duped into publishing stupid and obviously fake news articles. So, they’ll just sit there and continue to fall for whatever the AI snake oil salespeople say moving forward on top of it all.
Still, it’s fun documenting this latest cycle of bullshit hype. It’s eyerolling, but hey, it’s the only way the AI companies know to how to make the line go up. As long as the mainstream media continues to be complicit in all of this, who needs, you know, actual customers to your product anyway?
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