Ed Zitron is a journalist who writes about AI companies and the surrounding insanity. If what his writing suggests is correct, the whole AI software market is going to implode, and maybe soon. While that will be terrible for investors, there will be benefits. One of those benefits being that there will not longer be cheap generative AI products from companies like OpenAI that clickbait creeps like David Flash can use to pretend to be a journalist.
Our editorial team emailed Ed to ask if we could reproduce one of his articles in full here at Big Bend Times Dot Org. Ed got back to us right away and said he didn’t want us to do that. It’s a super long article with so much great reporting that we understand why he doesn’t want us to just copy the whole thing. We replied again and asked if it would be okay to repost two paragraphs from his article with a link to the full at his website. Ed replied a second time and said that would be okay. We appreciate the permission to copy 2 paragraphs (okay it ended up technically being 3 paragraphs) of your excellent content. Just think, David Flash has websites where almost all of the content is a repost or and AI summary of other people’s content, and as far as we know, he never asks permission.
July 21, 2025 by Ed Zitron:
The Hater’s Guide The The AI Bubble
Good journalism is making sure that history is actively captured and appropriately described and assessed, and it’s accurate to describe things as they currently are as alarming.
And I am alarmed.
Alarm is not a state of weakness, or belligerence, or myopia. My concern does not dull my vision, even though it’s convenient to frame it as somehow alarmist, like I have some hidden agenda or bias toward doom. I profoundly dislike the financial waste, the environmental destruction, and, fundamentally, I dislike the attempt to gaslight people into swearing fealty to a sickly and frail psuedo-industry where everybody but NVIDIA and consultancies lose money….
Read the rest at Ed’s website: Where’s Your Ed At? And if you have the means, subscribe to Ed’s podcast Better Offline. All of Ed’s content is high quality and recommended by The Reporter.
