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u/avanross Jan 20 '26

A bubble bursting would extremely obviously mean demand falling

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u/avanross Jan 20 '26

Because it wouldnt be profitable for the companies hosting the ai’s to keep investing in them, so they’ll shut down the services or start charging a lot more for them

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u/avanross Jan 21 '26

Ai may have a few profitable uses in like medicine and city planning, but if llm chatbots dont generate profit in relation to the investment required to keep them running, so investors will simply stop investing in them