r/BetterOffline 2d ago

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r/BetterOffline 5d ago

Episode Thread - The AI Money Trap & How GPT-5 Works

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Hey all! Three episodes this week, a two-parter about the impossible-to-exit AI startups, the AI Capex holding up the American economy, and how GPT-5 works.

Please tell all your friends to download the show.


r/BetterOffline 5h ago

Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear| crossposting here since it’s relevant with the data centers obviously being for ai purposes

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r/BetterOffline 7h ago

Gamers Nexus say their Channel Could Be Deleted by Bloomberg because of GN's reporting on GPU sales in China.

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r/BetterOffline 4h ago

"Scamlexity": We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

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r/BetterOffline 8h ago

Thoughts on latest South Park episode?

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The whole episode focused on Randy becoming more and more addicted to ChatGPT and relying on it to help him save his farm. Well worth a watch - I'd think Ed would find it amusing!


r/BetterOffline 15h ago

AI's real costs are starting to rear their head on companies.

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I pay $700.00 a year for this industry-standard tech I'm still getting nickel-and-dimed.


r/BetterOffline 2h ago

since a lot has happened within the last month or so, when do you guys think the bubble will pop now?

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r/BetterOffline 22h ago

Rapper Freddie Gibbs on the use of Artificial Intelligence in music: “I've been in studios where motherfuckers are ChatGPTing this shit... People are lazy man. Art is dying when you gotta ask a computer to write your lyrics, shit is wack.”

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r/BetterOffline 16h ago

Why The AI Bubble Will Burst

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

They're putting blue food coloring in everything

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r/BetterOffline 7h ago

When do we enter the Disco Duck era of GenAI?

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r/BetterOffline 18h ago

Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister Peter Kyle

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Why does everything have to be so stupid?

Kyle has said that if a new UN security council were to be set up in a decade, technological clout – particularly in AI – would be a major factor in determining the most powerful countries.


r/BetterOffline 4h ago

We need better debates

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I’m getting so fucked off with what passes for AI discourse online. The artists vs AI debate is a total red herring, an irrelevance, and it’s causing an absurd amount of tribalism. Why does everything have to be a culture war?

The AI industry is doing real harm to vast numbers of people, and yet the vast majority of discussion about it centres around image extruders and whether or not ‘clanker’ is a racial slur. When did the world become this dumb?


r/BetterOffline 1d ago

24 Months ago Jason Calacanis made this prediction

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

An AI Cautionary Tale for the US: South Korea's Tech Rollback

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

Elon Musk Warns That AI Is "Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System” and “increase the birth rate…we’re gonna program it that way”

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

No.

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

Just what will it take for Politicians and Business People to reverse course on AI?

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Not that I’m saying it should be completely gone, it has its uses in medicine. It just feels like it’s gonna become that much more intrusive in everyday life


r/BetterOffline 1d ago

St. Charles becomes 1st city in nation to ban data center construction citywide for a year

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

The Guardian 23/08 - Is the AI bubble about to burst – and send the stock market into freefall?

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

Stocks are roaring higher this year, but Vanguard says investors should stick 70% of their money into bonds

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I know this is not an investing sub, and I am not posting this with the expectation that someone should take any advice from it. It's just interesting seeing a massive player like Vanguard showing such uncertainty in the current market.


r/BetterOffline 1d ago

Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister Peter Kyle

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Hahahaha of COURSE this sad excuse for a Labour government would consider spending the money saved by halving the green investment budget on shite like this


r/BetterOffline 1d ago

what exactly economy wise do you guys think will happen when the bubble pops

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not asking for financial advice just out of morbid c


r/BetterOffline 1d ago

Anthropic: Darwin was wrong, a monoculure is best

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r/BetterOffline 2d ago

Wired and Business Insider remove ‘AI-written’ freelance articles

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r/BetterOffline 1d ago

How to divest?

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Let’s put our heads together and talk about how we ensure our investments against the popping of the AI bubble. As a Canadian, I keep all my investments with WealthSimple because I am too lazy to curate my portfolio. I probably have huge exposure and I want to exit the bubble before it bursts. My only option, short of day trading, is moving everything to bonds. I am also unsophisticated, because I don’t want to spend my day in trading. What is your hands off strategy for anticipating the oncoming collapse?