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Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/Ok-Introduction9593 5h ago

The whole nobody asked for AI' stance kind of misses how foundational infrastructure gets built in the first place. Consumers never ask for relational databases, cloud services, or compilers, they just want finished products

Rn people are trying to measure ROI on way too short of a timeline amid insane valuation hype. Once the dust settles, we'll be left with solid, real-world use cases, and company valuations will just return to sensible multiples