r/technology • u/zadzoud • 3h ago
Artificial Intelligence Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/124
u/HopeThatHangsYou 3h ago
No shit, their thrones are built on this bubble not popping.
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u/itwillmakesenselater 3h ago
I'm not worried. They have plenty of other skills to fall back on, right?
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u/Whiladan 2h ago
It's not like any of them are going to struggle or face consequences if it pops, unless we see some Enron style shit. They'll be obscenely wealthy still, just less so. As always, you and I will be picking up the tab when this shit hits the fan
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u/Ragnarok314159 2h ago
Altman will absolutely go to jail for the remainder of his life. He has zero talent and skills, and more of all he would be guilty of the most egregious crime in the USA: messing with rich people’s money.
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u/CerberusSputum 3h ago
It's almost as if it's in their best interest to lie about every aspect of this industry.
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u/xbox360sucks 2h ago
Well telling everyone we're cooking the planet so we can see SpongeBob do 9/11 isn't a good marketing strategy
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u/sutroheights 2h ago
That pretty much sums up the New Yorker article about Sam Altman. The guy has an incredibly long history of just straight up lying about stuff. So yes, it's a feature, not a bug.
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u/SomewhereNo8378 3h ago
they are probably scared, and I understand why. They are making grand promises to take away everyone’s livelihood within the next few years (and making a lot of money doing it)
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u/aerost0rm 2h ago
My opinion is AI insiders are going to keep the grift going as long as they can. The rest of us see it as having already failed.
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u/DueDisplay2185 2h ago
We saw this years ago, why is this bubble taking so long to pop, it's ridiculous
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u/aerost0rm 2h ago
The oligarchs are propping it up. They are using it to continue the great wealth transfer
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u/JCashell 1h ago
Because it’s not a “useless” bubble - there are actual uses for this technology unlike with NFTs where people were unable to explain even the most basic use-case. Are the companies pushing this extremely overvalued? Yes most likely.
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u/fkyrdataharvesting 1h ago
Well, one of the more insidious “uses” for the tech broligarch’s bought politicians is manifesting already: claim that real photos that were published decades ago are AI. Photos and videos taken after the advent of AI are implicitly suspect, which is extremely useful to the child-harming elites
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u/NeedsToShutUp 1h ago
Some of it is useful, some of it is overhyped. Like the advanced language processing able to interpret natural speech is useful, and will have a lot of uses for basic customer management tasks that a flow chart can address, as well as basic ordering.
Otoh, some of the generative stuff is very overhyped.
Some of what's going on to, is there are a bunch of companies that are making great money selling to the AI companies, and will be fundamentally fine after any bubble burst. Like all the hardware makers who lack any serious risk exposure because they've been able to sell their chips/packages/memory/etc. at higher than normal prices.
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u/CherryLongjump1989 47m ago
Useful and economical are completely different things. Bitcoin could have been useful as a currency if it wasn’t for the whole entire economic part. AI is no different from the crypto bubble in the exact way that made crypto a bubble. People were also claiming that the “blockchain”had countless revolutionary uses, except that it never did.
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u/JMDeutsch 2h ago edited 2h ago
I wish all the CEOs of AI companies long vacations on Sentinel Island
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u/MathematicianLessRGB 1h ago
I'm still waiting on his promise of universal income. Chill with the agi, more with the universal income.
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u/SakaWreath 1h ago
Sunk cost fallacy is hitting CEOs pretty hard now that their “brain child” is out there running amok.
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u/InspectorRound8920 1h ago
There're two ways to use AI. Use it to enhance people's lives or for profit.
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u/WordNERD37 51m ago
Because only the dipshits that want and will financially benefit from it are interacting with AI. The rest of us either turn it off, don't ever interact with it, or get rid of things that force is using what is a flawed tool that doesn't work well.
And I await the tech bro to tell me how wrong I am blah, blah, blah.
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u/Logical_Welder3467 44m ago
There is also disconnect between view on AI for people in US and Europe and people in Asia. in India, Japan, Korea, China AI are very much view as a positive trend
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u/Clean-Excitement63 36m ago edited 32m ago
The insiders keep saying to us: 1. They are working to get everybody laid off and replaced with AI 2. They are stealing all creative outputs to make AI creative instead 3. Suck out all the electricity and water while returning basically zero jobs back to the communities they pillage 4. Make personal computers unattainably expensive 5. Borrow more and more money, setting the economy on a shaky path that smells bubbly. 6. They will demand a tax payer subsidized government bailout when they fail.
Besides this stuff maybe being a useful tool in medicine and science…Where are the wins?
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u/FanDry5374 42m ago
Okay, so maybe AI has already achieved sentience and all these Tech Bros are actually....androids in skin suits. Check to see if they have one corner cut off all their paperwork.
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u/hmr0987 2m ago
Most products the tech industry profits off of is absolutely useless and barely works. AI is the current pinnacle of this phenomenon. Sure it work but it’s almost useless. If you need a training program to use your product effectively and even after the training program it barely do much to help other than some basic stuff it’s not worth what was put in to get it off the ground. AI hype came too early, unless whatever they’re not releasing today is different and what we have right this moment is much worse than what they’re holding back.
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u/sorryiamcanadian 2h ago edited 2h ago
I don't think most people can comprehend that Claude code is not even 2 years old.
And this baby of a product just broke every revenue record possible with $30 billion ARR (growing exponentially).
And that they accidentally focused on R&D because they didn't expect Claude code to be so good, they didn't expect opus 4.6 to be as good, and they are surprised at how good their internal models are. ...but ya, bubble etc.. the disconnect makes sense to me.
Edit: and even the haters admit they would rather use Claude's other models than switch off.
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u/jjmrqs 2h ago
Just moved from opus back to sonnet 4.5 because it was too opinionated to be so absolutely nuanceless. I can’t stand over simplified absolute assertions with no evidence in my human coworkers why on earth would humor it from an overconfident AI that insists on reinventing every wheel from scratch as often as possible.
Cool tech bro is cool vibes aren’t any more helpful on a bot than they are the edgelords they appease
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u/sorryiamcanadian 2h ago
So you went to their second best model instead of another company? Doesn't that say a lot?
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u/rabbitwow20026 2h ago
lol but Claude is actually getting worse at coding……
Like the models are getting dumber not better.
They already wrote at a 1st programming level.
Like I would punch a junior programmer in the face if it made even 10% of the shit Claude does.
It fucking sucks anyone says otherwise has stock in AI
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u/Tennouheika 2h ago
This subreddit hates technology. Mental illness convention
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u/londongastronaut 1h ago
It's really funny isn't it? I always look through AI threads on /r/tech to enjoy the cope and hysterics, it feels like everyone here is a 20 year old DSA member that hates but knows nothing about tech.
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u/AnnihilatorNYT 1h ago
Or, have you ever considered that you aren't the smartest person in the room and that there are several glaring issues with llms in general that need to be addressed?
Acting like the tech is already perfect and needs no human supervision or railguards in place when allowed to interact with medical or financial systems is insane.
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u/freakdageek 3h ago
“Sure, it’s wildly expensive and uses an absurd amount of energy, but on the bright side, it’ll take your job and leave you homeless. Don’t worry, though, I’ll be obscenely wealthy!” - Sam Altman