[Blackthorn]

It's significantly worse! All NFTs did was separate fools from their money, and crypto in general increased GPU costs. All the Metaverse did was cause Facebook to throw away a bunch of money (lol).

Meanwhile, AI has ruined the whole Internet and inflated the price of everything electronic.

[mrandish]

Let's not forget that the inevitable AI crash will nerf even supposedely "diversified" broad market ETFs due to BigTech's insanely inflated valuations and the index gaming of the X, OAI, and Ant IPOs.

[kadoban]

AI is actually useful, in the strict sense. It can do things. If you consider its eventual effects good or bad for humanity is fair either way, but it's still different from NFTs or the "metaverse" nonsense. It's a categorically different thing.

[rjzzleep]

The whole internet AND local computing. This may be cool for people on SF salaries but for the vast majority of the world memory has become a luxury good

[getpokedagain]

While it is driving new hardware costs up remember you can run Linux on a potato and just wait it out. My pixel 8a is a phenomenal computer if ignore the hype monster.

[anuramat]

so, twitter went from 98% shit to 99% shit, and landfills get less smartphones; I'd say it's worth it