[schnevets]

I think the fad that most closely aligned with current AI absurdity was mid-2000s outsourcing.

[QuiEgo]

I feel like it was the dot com boom. :s/"Make everything online"/"Make everything use AI"/g

In a similar story, AI makes sense for some stuff but not other stuff. The stuff where it does not make sense for is gonna do bad when the bubble pops.