AI Content on the forum

[Ben]

I agree and it's a timely thread. I am heartily sick of AI text summaries (and AI videos presenting as real footage, which is a more general problem outside the forum). Between that, and the Twitter/YouTube dumping on threads, I am scrolling and scrolling past more and more posts, and I might even miss some gems in between the cracks doing this. I have less time than ever and the forum has more posts than ever. A lot of them would not be missed. It didn't used to be that way.

 

[Cosmos]

Quality over quantity. If more of us can engage those "who gave up" on thinking with a hammer here in the forum in precisely doing that, the signal-to-noise ratio will stay good.

Good idea IMO. So maybe if we could all work together in that regard, things could improve significantly. So in that sense we all can not only do it ourselves as a good example but we can point it out to others so that the noise comes down again.

 

[hoosiermystic]

I also scroll past AI-generated posts, but a short quoted summary can be useful in composing a well-rounded argument or reflection. I really don't like AI's "voice," I think for the same reason I never liked pop music - too superficial. Pop music is the common denominator made to appeal to the masses, and AI generates the common denominator from the masses.

I use AI most days at work for coding; it speeds things up tremendously and can be used to learn new, more efficient and elegant approaches. Other days I avoid it to build my brain muscles. Sometimes the bot gets itself stuck in a circle and can't generate a functional solution. It is an indicator that I'm relying a little to heavily on it, and I should probably take a break. When I come back and find the solution myself, it is quite gratifying.

 

[Sindy-T.S.R]

I couldn't agree more. Fortunately, I suspect that increased energy costs will soon throw a rather large spanner into the works of AI. It needs A LOT of power.

I'm patiently awaiting "AI 2.0", which I think will be much like Web 2.0 was back in the day.

It's highly likely that what you're saying will come true soon...:

Strait to Brrrrrrr....​

Honesty would fix all of this.​

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Mar 12, 2026

And then there’s AI. Which is private credit’s dirtiest secret.

The entire AI buildout was underwritten on the assumption of either perpetually low rates or revenues materialising faster than costs. Neither happened. But there’s a layer underneath that is worse.

The Trillion-Dollar Oops​

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22 dicembre 2025
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GPUs - the hardware the whole thing runs on - depreciate on paper over five years. In reality they’re obsolete in 18 to 24 months, because each new chip generation makes the previous one redundant. The book value says one thing. The resale market says something considerably more honest. Which means these companies aren’t just burning capital on growth. They’re burning capital to stay still - borrowing constantly just to replace hardware that’s carried on the balance sheet at a fraction of its real economic value.
Forty percent of private credit loan books are exposed to software companies running on this hardware. The loans were written against collateral marked at book value. Book value that always was a fiction. When credit tightens and those loans need refinancing or honest marking, you ‘discover’ the collateral backing a hundred-cent loan is worth sixty cents on a generous day. The ‘trillion-dollar oops’ is still unwinding. The house of cards was built on the carpet of cheap credit - and the carpet has been quietly shrinking since rates went up. Pull what remains of it.