{"id":145769,"date":"2025-10-16T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ars-live-recap-is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-pop-ed-zitron-weighs-in\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:25:08","slug":"ars-live-recap-is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-pop-ed-zitron-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ars-live-recap-is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-pop-ed-zitron-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday of last week, Ars Technica hosted<\/a> a live conversation with Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline<\/a> podcast and one of tech\u2019s most vocal AI critics, to discuss whether the generative AI industry is experiencing a bubble and when it might burst. My Internet connection had other plans, though, dropping out multiple times and forcing Ars Technica\u2019s Lee Hutchinson to jump in as an excellent emergency backup host.<\/p>\n

During the times my connection cooperated, Zitron and I covered OpenAI\u2019s financial issues, lofty infrastructure promises, and why the AI hype machine keeps rolling despite some arguably shaky economics underneath. Lee\u2019s probing questions about per-user costs revealed a potential flaw in AI subscription models: Companies can\u2019t predict whether a user will cost them $2 or $10,000 per month.<\/p>\n

You can watch a recording<\/a> of the event on YouTube or in the window below.<\/p>\n

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