It's also just less effective this time around. Everyone's afraid of being poor, capitalism as it exists functions based on that, so there's a strong emotion that gets people wrapped up with the NFT hype train.

It's a lot less convincing to go "Have fun being as productive as you are right now, loser.", at least without also going mask off and sounding like a supervillain.

This seems incredibly shortsighted even in their own framing. The SEO spammers who care about being on top of Google the most are the ones generating fake AI websites en masse, so wouldn't this just cause immediate AI inbreeding?

The slightly grimy, cynical tone is very well done, really made me feel like a soulless suit.

I wonder how much M&As still hinge on demos working at this point, isn't it an open secret that every startup is run by hustlers?

actually, this is lampshaded directly here:

seemed slightly surprised that _______ would be acquiring a genuinely pretty valuable company.

I usually dislike the whole line of thinking of "Well, it might not be true, but it tells you something that you believed it."

But, the world in which AI succeeds is the world where every book published is a fake field guide to mushrooms, or a recipe book for shaving cream. And it's like... I dunno, after 4 years of happily proclaiming that this is the thing we're going to sell, why have these guys never considered that fraud is bad, actually. Is fully automated luxury gay space fraud really so enticing?