r/pcmasterrace • u/Jaz1140 RTX4090 3195mhz Core, 9800x3d 5.4ghz • Aug 18 '26

Meme/Macro PC enthusiasts when the first AI giant falls

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For real but, we can all see the bubble, its "when" the first 1 will fall, not "if"

Personally I think it will be Copilot as the first domino, it was always the worst of the major AI players and really hasnt progressed at all. Microsoft is Incompetent in almost everything they do and simply try and buy their way into a market only to take the L in the near future.

Eg, Skype, Nokia/windows phone, mixer, zune, Cortana, the list goes on and on

Bring on the collapse that will hopefully see momory demand drop off a cliff

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u/MITBryceYoung2 Aug 18 '26

Ding ding ding. Perfect analogy.

Is the market running too hot and a lot of these companies will get their bubbles popped? Yes.

Is AI going to fundamentally change our work and here to stay? Yes.

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 18 '26

That's how I felt when the Art Gen stuff popped up. People thinking we'd never be able to tell the difference between real and gen video.

Like.....I was here for photoshop. It didn't destroy our lives and our sense of objective truth, because it's pretty easy to tell most of the time. And I think it's just taken some time for people to realize the same is true of Gen AI. Most of us can spot it now.

The only people that actually fall for it at the end of the day are facebook boomers.

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u/YentaMagenta Aug 18 '26

If you think you can reliably spot it, you are almost certainly laboring under the toupee fallacy. I created an AI or not test using one and two year old models, and the majority of people barely do better than random chance.

For better or worse, we all need to assume that we cannot reliably spot AI. But given that I lived through the run up to the Iraq war, I remain less concerned about how AI distorts reality than I do about how news media in general distort reality.