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The AI Hater's Manifesto

Newsletter · Watch/Read · (gathered 2026-08-29)

  • The AI industry is an unsustainable “bubble” built on “bad faith,” “propaganda,” and “financial debasement,” creating little real value despite immense costs and hype, and is fundamentally detestable.
  • Key concepts include “Jarvising,” where LLMs create an illusion of productivity through endless tinkering, and “circular financing,” where infrastructure providers like NVIDIA invest in unprofitable AI labs to maintain the illusion of demand.
  • OpenAI’s own economists found no statistically significant correlation between AI use and revenue per employee, highlighting that the industry demands living in the “future tense” because current capabilities and economics don’t justify the investment, warning users to be wary of outsourcing critical thinking to unreliable, expensive tools.