{"id":70526,"date":"2025-10-12T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/70526\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:15:10","slug":"ai-just-had-its-big-short-moment-by-will-lockett-oct-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/70526\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Just Had Its \u201cBig Short\u201d Moment | by Will Lockett | Oct, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press enter or click to view image in full size<img alt=\"\" class=\"bi hs ht c\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" loading=\"eager\" role=\"presentation\"\/>Photo by <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@pawel_czerwinski?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pawel Czerwinski<\/a> on <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a>The grfit is up.<a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wlockett.medium.com\/?source=post_page---byline--714e143dabfa---------------------------------------\" data-discover=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Lockett\" class=\"m fk by bz ca de\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1*V0qWMQ8V5_NaF9yUoHAdyg.jpeg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"authorPhoto\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"55de\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nu nv ie nw b iy nx ny nz jb oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op he bl\">Will AI take all our jobs? Is it going to be a SkyNet-esque existential threat to humanity? Absolutely not. This fear-driven propaganda has been shoved down our throats for years now. In the real world, AI isn\u2019t even that useful a tool. A recent <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/08\/18\/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MIT study<\/a> found that 95% of AI pilots actually lowered productivity. AI can barely organise a back office, but that isn\u2019t what makes it dangerous. You see, there is a very real chance it could destroy our economy from the top down, not the bottom up. Remember that moment from the \u201cBig Short\u201d, where a stripper tells Mark Baum she has a silly number of houses, and he suddenly realises a total market collapse is imminent? Yeah, we have just had that moment with AI. Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p id=\"630f\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nu nv ie nw b iy nx ny nz jb oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op he bl\">Before we go on, do not take financial advice from this article. Conduct your own research and consult with financial experts.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bd98\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nu nv ie nw b iy nx ny nz jb oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op he bl\">I have already explained why the AI industry is in a bubble, and how it will affect the economy when it pops. If you want the details, click <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.planetearthandbeyond.co\/p\/ai-will-destroy-everything\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.planetearthandbeyond.co\/p\/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-pop\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2498\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nu nv ie nw b iy nx ny nz jb oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op he bl\">But basically, no AI company or AI infrastructure is profitable. They are all losing money hand over fist. As such, they are using equity financing (selling shares of the company) or debt financing (borrowing money) to keep the lights on. However, because of the perceived notion of an AI\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press enter or click to view image in full sizePhoto by Pawel Czerwinski on UnsplashThe grfit is up.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-70526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}