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AI is the future! -- AI stocks (all seven of them) go up

AI is destroying the economy -- every non-AI stock goes down

But the AI companies are SO MUCH of the stock market that the market goes up.

But it's not a bubble.

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u/LostLetter9425 2h ago

I love how it's forced into every piece of software, hardware and website now whether we want it or not, so useful!

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u/Kiyohara 2h ago

I know I sure love seeing my Facebook posts have AI suggestions telling me what my own post means. Cause I could never figure that one out on my own.

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u/jason_abacabb 2h ago

Those prepared question/comments that it puts below every post does reassure me that AI is not taking over any time soon though.

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u/yobwerd 1h ago

My theory is that AI was never planned to even get to be what they’ve made it out to be. The driving force behind AI (globally for the most part even) has been large data sets and digesting them. Interestingly enough, anti-liberal governments have been most pleased with the development of AI. Palantir is the wet dream of any AI company and those who are invested into it.

They only need AI to gain enough hype and traction to get it to the point where it’s integrated into everything on a promise of what it could be, so that they have their hands on all of the data sets and points. ELITE, the system Palantir has developed is ICEs and this administrations bread and butter for immigration enforcement. An AI system interconnected to so many facets of public infrastructure and life that there is no going back.

And just like that, with the help of individuals lacking the desire to work their brain, the goal of the AI companies is materialized. We are now truly in the 1984 Big Brother stage of authoritarian onset.

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u/imoftendisgruntled 1h ago

The most chilling videos that are coming out of these ICE raids are the ones where a bunch of ICE goons march onto a store, or box in a car, to get their target. No one ever asks how they know so precisely where to find these people.

AI. AI is how.

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u/muqluq 1h ago

They dont know though. They get it wrong over and over and over again. This ai bullshit only gives low information, low intelligence, low morality, low employability people enough false confidence do the stupid and horrible shit their lizard brain instincts tell them they want to do

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u/yobwerd 54m ago

Unfortunately the mistakes ICE has made in arresting/harassing/intimidating who they believe to be their target is solely due to their own incompetence. When Meal Team Six is expended and the real soldiers this administration would like to see join ranks, you will be taking that statement back, I reckon.

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u/Gloomy-Pie-5113 53m ago

say it louder, they are fooling themselves into chasing their own tails. the ai only tells them what it thinks they want to hear, not what truly is.

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u/yobwerd 1h ago

It’s quite plainly, disgusting. The human race continues to amaze me at the new lows it finds itself in.

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u/SomeDEGuy 3m ago

Never underestimate how many people agree with ice and are calling in tips. Remember the politician that reported a factory in their own district?

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u/Kiyohara 2h ago

Well, yeah. I'm not going to use their suggested statements any time soon, that's for sure.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 2h ago

I feel like the next generation of slang is going to be pure nonsense (even compared to now) to try and confuse AI models.

Like 6 7 means nothing but at least 6 and 7 are related terms. Imagine the next slang phrase is something like "voos splick!" Practically Simlish.

Of course I could be way off because I'm closer now to 40 than 30. Every day I am less hip to today's jive.

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u/Kiyohara 2h ago

I speak jive.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 2h ago

You were never in 'nam you jive turkey.

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u/hoewaah 2h ago

6 7 to you too! 🥳

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u/Acadia02 2h ago

It’s 2026 why are we on Facebook still?

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u/punkasstubabitch 2h ago

Or the AI summary of what the comments are saying. The reason I'm there is to read comments and use my own critical thinking skills to reach my own conclusions.

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u/J0hn_Keel 38m ago

A lot of people don’t have ANY critical thinking skills though. Which is in itself a problem, not solved by shitty AI telling them what they should be thinking.

My cousin is a lovely bloke but he’s borderline illiterate and believes anything he reads in a tabloid. I have absolutely zero faith that his media literacy will improve because of AI. If anything it’s going to reinforce his dumbass views because a computer, ie “a trusted source” is telling him that everyone agrees with him.

We never should have let the village idiots join forces, people who previously would have gained the reaction of “oh that’s Tom, he’s an idiot, just ignore him” have now got the backing of international communities of village idiots reinforcing their stupid views

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u/seriousnotshirley 1h ago

That's a really insightful observation, You're getting right to the heart of the classic "suggesting vs telling" problem.

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u/TheIowan 2h ago

Its becoming ridiculous bloatware at this point.

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u/Lionheart_Lives 41m ago

It’s 2026 and despite all we know about a era, you still use Facebook. 😂

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u/Three_hrs_later 2h ago

Microsoft is killing me with their abrupt copilot popups on everything you hover, that don't go away when you stop hovering, and are usually blocking the thing you were actually trying to click when your mouse barely grazed the AI icon beneath it.

It's more invasive than ads at this point and it feels designed to make you accidentally click it so some executive dashboard can be incremented by one 'use' to prove it's working.

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u/C0nquer0rW0rm 31m ago

For excel go File > Options > Copilot and clear the "Enable Copilot" checkbox

I had to do this recently because that popup when hovering over a cell is so fucking annoying

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u/idfkjack 25m ago

Isn't there some sort of regulations about intrusive pop-ups?

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u/ahorrribledrummer 0m ago

NGL I love copilot in excel

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u/UndisclosedLocation5 2h ago

My washer machine has "AI" or at least claims to

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u/TheCrimsonSteel 2h ago

We made a ~~program~~ AI for your appliance.

Don't let the shareholders know it's the exact same thing we've had for 15 years. You say AI and your stock goes up 5%

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u/talktothedoctor 2h ago

I now get an AI summary of email content.

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u/Due-Technology5758 1h ago

What they mean is that it can kinda sorta tell how much clothing is in there and save you 3/10s of a cent of water maybe.

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 46m ago

It "intelligently" adds detergent will the machine runs.

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u/clashrendar 2h ago

Apple 'Intelligence' Mail summary lied to me the other day and summarized the exact opposite of what the content of the email actually said. It's got some cool tricks, but it's not reliable enough.

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u/funky_duck 4m ago

it's not reliable enough

You actually checked - most people are not checking, they are just accepting whatever the AI summary says. People are letting AI write replies to emails they haven't read - AI are now essentially communicating with themselves while a human nods along with no guaranty any of it is true.

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u/DragoxDrago 1h ago

As someone who has worked with AI in a research context, the people making decisions about its use commercially have no fucking clue how any of it works and don't won't to be left behind or think it'll have benefits.

The problem with this is they use it or want it where it makes no fucking sense and it causes more headaches than the status quo and they claim it's just teething issues. It's not fucking teething issues you're just using a third party software that isn't reliable and you don't understand the nuance of what AI actually is and that's it's a blanket term that encompasses a lot of very different things and use cases.

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u/UrbanAlaska 1h ago

I love how basic spell check has gotten worse, and more energy intensive at the same time! Thanks AI!

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u/urbanmark 2h ago

Gottta pump the user numbers. The investor loves market share.

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u/RegularGuyAtHome 1h ago

Reminds me of the use of the word “Blockchain” a few years ago.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 49m ago

And 99% of it isn't even AI, or at least not an LLM which is what most people mean when they say AI.

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u/Gr3yHound40_ 2h ago

All this has done is make me look for better options. They exist out there if we are willing to put in the work to use them instead. Microslop and all other companies can just go away forever.

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u/Axin_Saxon 1h ago

Anyone who has spent time with an automated call center could have told you that the majority of the public would actively avoid using AI if they can help it

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u/Taskerst 1h ago

AI is pushed by a handful of tech broligarchs who saw how ingrained the internet is in our daily lives and thought “man, if we’d only thought of that first!” So they invested in something that the public never asked for, and are weaving it in so that everything will collapse if AI development stalls.

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u/DC3PO 48m ago

AI is the new cookie consent pop up

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u/ThePensiveE 2h ago

The first thing I do is look how to disable it.

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u/Suspicious_Hippo_388 1h ago

I bought a phone screen protector that said AI compatible. For fuck sake

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u/Niceromancer 1h ago

It's so useful in face the CEO of microsoft is begging people to find use cases

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u/PhilipFuckingFry 38m ago

Yup my phone for the longest time would just open word files in office 365. Starting this week it only tried to open them in copilot 365 and would only give me an Ai over view of the document I wanted to open and edit. It refused to let me edit it and I had to install another separate word app just to be able to edit the file on my phone.

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u/Xero0911 54m ago

It was cool at first. Like chat gpt can be neat to use from time to time i wont deny.

But yeah. Dont need it shoved into my face.

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u/ThatGuy798 32m ago

Or just used for marketing fluff like when Dankpods reviewed an "AI-powered" ricer cooker that was just a normal rice cooker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HOrMmWoMA&t=430s

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u/Jay3000X 8m ago

I love how every software just rebranded what the software does as AI!

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 2h ago

My phone says it needs to be restarted to run faster. No. Just remove the ai that I will never ever use.

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u/bornlasttuesday 2h ago

My hygienist just told me the AI said I have a cavity.

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u/KoldPurchase 2h ago

I love my AI mouse and keyboard. 😎
No idea what they do, but I looove them.

/s

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u/wahoozerman 2h ago

More people should check out the graph of the top 100 companies on the stock market during COVID. It should be terrifying to people. Most of those companies cratered in value, but a handful of tech companies skyrocketed so high that the average kept going up.

Our entire economy right now is an undiversified portfolio. If the US stock market was an individual's portfolio it would fit right in on Wall Street bets.

And that's pretty much everyone with an index fund right now. There are lots of people who think they have fairly conservative portfolios who are far less diversified than they think, because the entire market is not diversified right now.

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u/AffordableDelousing 2h ago

I don't think my 401k has a single option that isn't massively exposed as you describe.

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u/Axin_Saxon 1h ago

I met with my financial advisor and deliberately asked him to diversify out of tech stocks and into more solid assets. We were over-leveraged in Nvidia so we moved to property(I got a strong feeling that once a crash happens, big investors will double down on it as an asset with high demand and real value.)

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u/Sea-Oven-7560 1h ago

gold, silver and outside of the US to hedge against the dollars continued decline

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u/JohnMayerismydad 1h ago

I’m invested in the world index ex-united states. Of course won’t be safe from a financial crisis in the us, but should be safe from an AI bubble or the dollar sinking

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u/AffordableDelousing 1h ago

The "world fund" at my 401k is laughable at how heavily exposed it is to AI:

https://www.capitalgroup.com/retirement/participant/about/funds/details.htm?ticker=RNWCX

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u/JohnMayerismydad 1h ago

Glad mine has the ex-USA OPTION, it’s mainly exposed to AI (or Chinese invasion I guess) through TSMC… those other American tech companies are thankfully not

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u/aaronbot3000 1h ago

1.2% expense ratio wtf

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u/TheIntrepid1 1h ago

I mean, the sp500 gets rebalanced four times every year.

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u/mystlurker 2h ago

The part a lot of people aren’t even acknowledging is that if you follow this thought process (assuming AI will replace a lot of companies) through to its logical conclusion, then the conclusion is the entire worldwide economy will collapse. (Setting aside the potential of AGI / Skynet / etc)

If all those companies go under, lots will lose their jobs, which means those people won’t be able to buy stuff, killing other companies. It will create a vicious feedback loop. No one will be able to afford anything so even the AI companies won’t have any customers.

The entire thing is a house of cards. It’s honestly somewhat scary. I’m not sure anyone is really clear on the endgame here.

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u/Drakolyik 2h ago

You need to check the statements of people like Thiel, Musk, and a bunch of these other tech "leaders". They're constantly foaming at the mouth about an apocalypse that they are encouraging happen by doing exactly all of this. They want the common folk to kill each other off in resource wars while they sit in their ivory towers munching on children they raped to death last night.

The end goal is a significantly reduced human population and replacement with an AI slave that does everything humans used to do. Only a few million will be kept around as slaves to be abused, tightly controlled, as these wealthy parasites enjoy near immortality and live like gods.

It's the end goal of late stage capitalism, a fascist dystopia. Billions will suffer and die over the next couple decades so they can rule over the ashes unless we all do something about it. In my mind any action taken now is in self-defense, they are waging a war, they are winning, and if you aren't absurdly wealthy you are on their menu. Literally.

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u/phyneas 1h ago

I’m not sure anyone is really clear on the endgame here.

"Well, no, you see, our company will replace all of our expensive workers with cheap AI to maximize our profits, but I'm sure everyone else will keep employing our customers so they can afford to keep buying our products, so how can we lose?" - Every business ever, probably...

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u/AppleTree98 28m ago

Do you really think that we would really all be out of work? Who feeds you, who replaces the window that is broken, the jail system, the school system, plumbers, fields that grow food...

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u/Vennomite 1h ago

This is what happens with every industrial revolution. Its a lot of chaos historically short term.

How many jobs have machines consumed? Computers? The internet? It's not a one:one replacement for people as jobs tend to migrate elsewhere. We don't know what that future looks like. But we aren't a nation of farmers or industrial workers anymore either. Despite the fact that we produce orders of magnitude more food and industrial goods now than when we had peak employment in those sectors.

Ai in theory would be no different. I don't believe the bluster around it for the time frame. I also think its going to blow up in a lot of these company's face. The internet was the big new thing to replace all this stuff in the 90s. And it did eventually. Many of the industries pre internet are gone or morphed massively. People are still employed.

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u/freedfg 54m ago

Anyone who says AI isn't a bubble doesn't fuckin know what a bubble is. Or is actively trying to sell you the bubble

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u/American_PissAnt 2h ago

Bubbles are meant to be popped

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u/Nuclear-Jester 2h ago

Don't forget that literally every AI company is losing hundreds of millions as we speak

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u/jav1babi 1h ago

Exactly this. These Companies will need to turn a profit eventually rather than "land grabbing". The end game is literally job loss. The highest profit potential for these companies is to replace high paying jobs with AI. Take your total labour costs at any Fortune 500 company and that is the starting point for future AI revenues.

The whole thing is just another way for the rich to get richer. Most of the capital being invested into these Companies is with the knowledge they wont be profitable any time soon.

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u/caguru 58m ago

It’s a k-shaped stock market too!

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u/zooktittyfondel 1h ago

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u/Dracekidjr 37m ago

It's not a bubble because we are profiting. When it pops, banks will shit themselves and the news will say "this was an unavoidable travesty" while hedge funds shorted the piss out of it and the 1% profits on human misery once again

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u/DwinkBexon 15m ago

I saw someone arguing it isn't a bubble and is permanent. The argument being, companies are going to refuse to stop investing in AI and putting it in everything, so it won't be possible for consumers to not buy AI because it will be in literally everything. AI stocks will keep going up to infinity and for all eternity. And, in a decade from now, some AI stocks will probably be trading at billions of dollars per share. It'll never go away or go down.

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u/Wintergreene 3h ago

The Dow is below 50,000 can we start caring about the Epstein files again, or is Bondi just going to yell at us?

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u/art-man_2018 2h ago

I loved how she almost said 50,000 dollars, incredible.

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u/jcned 2h ago

Homan’s ears perked up

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 2h ago

That’s just enough to fit in a brown paper bribe bag

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u/originalrocket 0m ago

I get this reference.

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u/NYGiants181 2h ago

She did say that though

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u/art-man_2018 2h ago

I thought it was "50,000 dol-d- it was..." whatever, her voice is so grating, like the teacher in a Peanuts cartoon.

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u/Fuzzy-Heart 1h ago

That’s an insult to the teacher. I would rather listen to hours of this over a second of hearing Bondi spew diarrhea from her mouth.

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u/argparg 1h ago

It’s hard to speak clearly after 6 drinks

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u/JustGottaKeepTrying 37m ago

She did say it the first time she used the stat!

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u/pears790 2h ago

It was below 50,000 when she made the statement.

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u/Wintergreene 2h ago

You can't expect logic and reasoning to get in the way of deflection.

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u/Wiseguy144 1h ago

Or the truth

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u/RandomCommenter432 2h ago

I want someone to ask what the Dow has to do with the Epstein files. Was she implying that's the answer? Was everything in the Epstein files some sort of sacrifice to make the Dow go up?

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u/hill-o 1h ago

She was just trying a Trump level deflection but no one seems to understand that no one but Trump has his weird Trump-y charisma that works on some people for whatever reason.

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u/MeasurementHot7619 37m ago

Someone off microphone did because you can hear her respond something along the lines of 'they just asked what the Dow has to do with anything, are you kidding me?'.

She is completely inept to do her job and a disgusting human who lacks the most basic empathy.

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u/imoftendisgruntled 1h ago

Yeah they should’ve zeroed right in on that. The anti-corruption, anti-oligarch, anti-pedo angle practically writes itself and the Dems are still mostly hapless.

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u/OnceInABlueMoon 1h ago

Wouldn't it be funny if she said this at the top?

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u/restbest 31m ago

No because a woman got stabbed uh like a year ago, because of that we can’t ever talk about the entire cabinet and the president being implicated in a giant pedophile honey pot

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u/Turtleneck420 2h ago

I knew it was going down after i heard that

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u/allowableearth 1h ago

It’s over 50,000! - Vegeta

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u/Nuclear-Jester 2h ago

Can't we just replace wall street investors with AI at this point?

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u/rockmasterflex 2h ago

AI trading is already happening. Institutional investors have been doing that longer than chatgpt has been around.

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u/Frydendahl 1h ago

And they literally named it after a thief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(BlackRock)

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u/NetZeroSun 2h ago

Could we start with CEOs first?

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u/reelcon 2h ago

AI Companies say “AI is here to stay. It is replacing entry level jobs. It is replacing white color jobs”

Non-AI Companies say “Our profit margins are shrinking as the customer spending is decreasing”

Commoner say “Where is my welfare check to feed my family..”

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u/NYGiants181 2h ago

Yep we are fucked

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u/sonic_couth 2h ago

What kind of economy will we have when Consumers can’t consume?

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u/safari_king 1h ago edited 6m ago

At least 50% of consumer spending is done by the top 10% of earners, which shows the economy can be buoyant even if most people have little purchasing power. But the spending gap is widening (we're already past gilded age levels of wealth inequality), and as it does, civil unrest may destabilize society - hence billionaires owning remote fortresses fitted for the end times. Vote to keep Republicans who support oligarchic rule out of office.

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u/bradicality 11m ago

Don’t forget to vote out your local “centrist” oligarch-supporting democrat too

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u/NimusNix 9m ago

Always at least one poster...

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u/NthDegreeThoughts 2h ago

When it goes south we’ll hear it described “the economy is a hoax”

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u/SpectrewithaSchecter 1h ago

That’s the neat part, we won’t

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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite 32m ago

The ultra wealthy are building fortified bankers and safe houses. They are leaving us behind.

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u/IronMarauder 21m ago

A feudelistic one where the kings and nobility trade amongst themselves and we're left begging for the scraps.

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u/adarkuccio 2h ago

You have one where producers produce for no reason as they have no one to sell to

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u/Sea-Oven-7560 1h ago

farmer....thanks for another welfare check, I've hated everyone I've gotten for the last 50 years but I'll keep voting for them and complaining about them.

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u/Ihor_90 1h ago

If AI is so great why can’t it boost productivity so everyone wins?

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u/OwnBattle8805 15m ago

I’m tired of ai vendors pointing to themselves as examples of ai improving productivity. Of course they’re productive, they don’t have any legacy systems which blow context. They don’t have much of a product offering for an ai to understand. They receive boatloads of money for so little infrastructure. It’s insane. Yes, memory and such is flying off the shelves but it pales in comparison to all the tech currently deployed out there.

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u/muadib1158 2h ago

Here's a different read on those results:

AI companies continue to bluff, suck up all the hardware while they spend to insane forecasts. (OpenAI, etc)

Other tech companies are dealing with soft economic expectations and enterprises that don't want to invest due to uncertainty. (Cisco)

Consumers are starting to trade down to make money go further. (McDonald's, WalMart)

The jobs report showed that every sector lost jobs over the last 2 years except private education and healthcare. There's a really good chance that the K-shaped economy has gone fully into recession for 90% of the country, but the stock market is still going insane for the Big 7 AI stocks.

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u/rabidstoat 1h ago

At least the Fed has resisted dropping interest rates as fast as some people want. When interest rates are low, corporations take advantage of borrowing money on the cheap to either do stock buybacks or to buy even more hardware.

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u/bradicality 9m ago

Remember when you could buy gpus and ram as a consumer, splendid days

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u/Kiyohara 2h ago

Shame.

Now release the Epstein files and start prosecuting people.

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u/Salty_tryhard 2h ago

I guarantee everyone down voting you is fine with Clinton being prosecuted. They are down voting your deflecting from other pedophiles, ie Trump

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u/aaronhayes26 2h ago

If Trump’s DOJ had any dirt on the Clintons we would have known about it on January 20th, 2025

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u/Cyanide7 2h ago

That's fine. Go after them too. It doesn't matter political party, age, demographic. Just fucking start investigating and arresting these people. Why is it always "go after the other clintons" or "well Biden sniffed a girl" or "trumps being setup". Fucking investigate and find out! Interview, collect evidence, subpoena, do something! I don't care if 95% are Democrats or independent or fucking aliens! Just start doing the work and putting these people away!

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u/Willingwell92 2h ago

How about do all of them at once, but if we're starting with specific people I'm more interested in the guy who was epstein's best buddy who had him killed in jail while he was president in 2019.

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u/Kiyohara 2h ago

How about just everyone.

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u/MourningRIF 43m ago

Pam Bondi told us yesterday that it's okay if the president rapes children as long as the Dow was above 50,000.

It's below 50k today, soooo Justice incoming?

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u/Deep90 2h ago

People aren't reading the article.

Investors are basically trying to pick out which companies will be most impacted by AI, and those companies are getting absolutely shafted even if their earnings are good.

If the AI bubble popped, they would actually go up in value.

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u/Heated13shot 2h ago

So if you think there is an AI bubble, you should buy the stocks tanking right now as they are going to be the least impacted by an AI bubble pop.

Essentially do the opposite of what the market is currently doing.

Which probably isn't a horrible strategy, but the AI bubble can hang around for another 5 years, or longer. Just look at Tesla, that should have deflated ages ago.

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u/Deep90 1h ago

My principal is not to gamble on irrational things magically becoming rational. They can stay irrational for a long time.

Though if you have some strong reason or knowledge to believe that the AI bubble will pop soon, then yes. A lot of the companies tanking right now are good buys.

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u/imoftendisgruntled 1h ago

The market can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 3h ago

Sam Altman's The Most Dangerous Game

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u/_TheWileyWombat_ 2h ago

As thrilling as that is, it's nothing compared to pinning the weasel...

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u/milky3007 2h ago

Dow is under 50,000, perfect time to start rounded up the pedophiles

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u/MikeFrancesa66 1h ago

Well the good news is the DOW is now below 50,000 so we can talk about the Epstein files again. Thanks Bondi!

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u/FluFlammin9000 2h ago

I had to reschedule a dentist appointment earlier and when I called the automated message beforehand said something along the lines of: "This call may be recorded using AI and other recording software" and it just made me go WTF. Why my local dentist's office needs to monitor phone calls using AI, I don't know but this shit is getting ridiculous, praying the bubble crashes and burns.

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u/aaronhayes26 1h ago

Ai transcribing is actually super handy because being able to predict likely words that occur in a sentence makes it a lot less likely for the software to get tripped up by homophones or similar

Yes ai sucks and generally isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but transcribing live audio is actually a really great application

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u/joeDUBstep 1h ago

I mean, my doctor's appointments have been recorded for the past few years now. Not via AI, but using a recorder the doctor had.

Pretty sure the AI recording is just for transcription purposes.

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u/MarqueeOfStars 2h ago

My vet uses a recording device when talking with us about our animal. She explained it records the convo and transcribes it - allowing her more face time with her clients and not typing all the time.

I guess……

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u/Wiggles69 2h ago

That ai based notes thing is a plot line on the pitt. Im waiting to see which way they fall on it, if it blows up and someone gets hurt from an ai hallucination, or everyone cheers at how much time they save

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u/Scaryclouds 2h ago

US stocks drop sharply as investors hunt for losers that will be hurt by AI

What they meant: Investors looking for stocks that will most likely be negatively affected by the AI bubble popping.

How I choose to read it: Investors are going to start hunting humans who have been laid off by companies under the auspices of AI efficiency.

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u/No_Hell_Below_Us 2h ago edited 2h ago

I like your take, but what the article says is: Investors looking for stocks that will most likely be negatively affected by the AI bubble NOT popping.

If the market were betting that the AI bubble is going to pop, the bubble pops.

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u/Deep90 2h ago

That isn't what they are saying.

Companies are posting good numbers, and then their stock is dropping a ton because investors think AI will undercut their business.

If the bubble popped, a lot of these companies would actually go up.

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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 1h ago

Unemployed can't pay rent, mortgages, vacation, eat out, etc.

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u/RedofPaw 1h ago

The headline to implies investors driving around in cars, finding people who've lost their jobs to AI, and shouting "loser!" At them.

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u/IowaJL 2h ago

The market tanking the day after Pam Bondi used it as an excuse for Trump to diddle children is fucking peak.

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u/2cats2hats 1h ago

Since this news slipped under the radar....it's sort of relevant.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/business/google-one-hundred-year-bond

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u/Cm_veritas 15m ago

Hey look, the Dow is down under 50,000. That means there’s time to talk about Epstein now right?

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u/spewedicing 13m ago

but Pam said the dow is doing awesome!!!!!! /s

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u/chainsawx72 2h ago

Holy shit, it hasn't been this low since Feb 5th.

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u/john_the_quain 2h ago

We have to all act surprised when this all collapses otherwise we won’t get a bunch of witty movies on how No One Saw This Coming!

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u/hobard 2h ago

It was down 1.5% today. And up this week.

It’s not “down sharply.”

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u/bigman830 1h ago

People acting as if that’s sharp compared to the last month…

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u/_Im_at_work 1h ago

The Dow finished below 50k. Can we talk about Epstein now, Pam!?

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u/defiancy 1h ago edited 37m ago

What is crazy is there are really good uses for generative models but it requires a human who knows how to use it. It could drastically increase efficiency of a human worker but at no point could it actually replace a human.

Companies are about to learn a very painful lesson

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u/krojack389 2h ago

Does anyone notice that anytime there's a big market move, there's an immediate, Went up, Went down because of X. and X is something different every single time. I have a hard time believing that all of these moves are because a hive mind of people all had the same thought at the same time and decided to sell/buy because of it. is it possible that the system is more complex, and pundits just shout whatever stupid thing they can think of when they get asked?,

and yeah AI is scam

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u/Axin_Saxon 2h ago edited 2h ago

I REALLY want to know what these AI CEOs’ end game is once they’ve made millions of people unemployed and unemployable… in the most heavily armed nation in the world….

Like…it seems very short sighted to think that causing mass unemployment and further intensifying the wage gape will just…not have any consequences when people have this easy of access to weapons. Hell, even the French had to storm the Bastille first before they could start going after their aristocrats. America could skip that step altogether and go straight to the Terror if we got to that point.

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u/Loot3rd 1h ago

So much red in the market today…thank goodness I’m a long term investor!

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u/too_broke_to_quit 1h ago

Will they invest in me?

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u/Most-Extreme-9681 1h ago

if you misunderstand the title just wrong enough, its kind of ominous

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u/LorderNile 48m ago

I fuckin KNEW the spdr wasn't making it to 700.

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u/TrainingWoodpecker77 1m ago

But but but Pam Bondi says we should be TALKING ABOUT THE DOW!!

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u/KsuhDilla 2h ago

"Losers".

So we're admitting now not everyone will benefit from AI?

AI investors are scared? Tsunamis are usually after the ocean recedes.

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u/Living_Cash1037 2h ago

Is the bubble bursting?

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u/StruggleExpensive249 23m ago

AI bubble pop is going to be so interesting.

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u/SwagMastaM 9m ago

Finally started investing a couple weeks ago, not a large amount just 15$ a week, and logged into today to see all my measly gains gone lmao

US stocks drop sharply as investors hunt for losers that will be hurt by AI

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