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Author slams AI hype as tech sector's latest 'grift'

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The author expresses strong skepticism about the current hype surrounding artificial intelligence and agentic AI, viewing it as a pretext for tech barons to demand more resources and subsidies. They criticize the tech sector, particularly Silicon Valley, as a long-standing grift with "innovation" leading to ruin, suggesting a need for a complete repudiation of capitalism. AI

RANK_REASON The item is a highly opinionated, critical take on AI hype and the tech industry, lacking specific new information or a verifiable event, fitting the 'meme' category for unsubstantiated or fringe commentary.

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Author slams AI hype as tech sector's latest 'grift'

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    Of course that also includes anything to do with their "artificial intelligence" and "agentic # AI " crap. Yes, they all talk as though they're amazed by the su

    Of course that also includes anything to do with their "artificial intelligence" and "agentic # AI " crap. Yes, they all talk as though they're amazed by the surging intelligence and creativity of the "AGI" thingummies whose supposedly boundless growth and improvement furnishes t…

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