Ed Zitron

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1. The Diary Of A CEO · Aug 27, 2026

   The Man Who Calls BS On AI: They’re LYING About AI, 2027 Is When It All Breaks! | Ed Zitron

   7 moments · 44 min

   4:32
   1. 11:47

      AI subscriptions can hide the true cost of usage

      “They found that on a $200 a month chat GPT subscription, you can burn $14,000 worth of tokens.”

   2. 1:45:33

      AI infrastructure spending is fueled by circular financing

      “They are doing it because they saw the biggest companies in the world building data centers”

   3. 2:08:15

      Ed predicts OpenAI could run out of cash in 2027

      “They are going to need to raise at least $100 billion a year just to survive.”

   4. 1:00:38

      AI has not produced broad white-collar job losses

      “work-wise, are art directors. It's people, art directors, transcribers, translators, who have bosses that don't care about the output.”

   5. 2:00:21

      The blackmail examples were prompted tests, not autonomous acts

      “What actually happened was a user of GPT doing the experiment got it to generate things to say to a TaskRabbit to make a TaskRabbit do stuff.”

   6. 1:33:36

      AI capability gains are hitting practical limits

      “the promises do not line up with the capabilities or the capability improvements.”

   7. 52:37

      Ed links Google's search decline to pressure for more queries

      “Google stripped back a lot of the suppression of spammy sites so that people would be on Google more.”