Is It Time To Pull The Plug On A.I.?

Remember when A.I. specially referred to just certain characters in video games that you couldn’t play as or Skynet from Terminator, a film that foreshadowed a dystopian future you knew had ZERO chance of becoming an actual reality?! Those were the “good” times, weren’t they?!

You don’t have to be living under a rock to know that A.I. is EVERYWHERE nowadays! Whether we are talking about A.I. that is designed with “assisting” our computers, A.I. that is designed to give us a robo chat bot to talk to or A.I. that is designed to make a bunch of creatively bankrupt SLOP that no one will want to see or watch, you simply can NOT escape A.I. nowadays! You can’t click on an ad or watch a commercial that does NOT have some sort of mention of A.I.!

Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, every company and their mother has jumped on the artificial intelligence bandwagon, hoping to ride the current trending tech wave in the hopes that they can make extra money of it before they get “left behind”! That has led to the likes of Google creating Gemini, Meta making Llama, and Twitter/X cranking out Grok, creating new “special” features for their brands and businesses in the hopes of winning the A.I. race, perhaps the biggest global race of the 2020s thus far! Because of that, hundreds of millions to even billions of dollar signs have been spent in the past four years on developing A.I. data centers and infrastructures all around the world!

And as we begin to get more advance with A.I., there has been serious concerns about how exactly artificial intelligence will affect us for the foreseeable future! Will there be any jobs left? Will all of our favorite hobbies be made by actual people? Will this actually be as impactful as it is in our favorite sci-fi films from over 25 years ago?! And most importantly, will robots actually take over humanity and wipe us all out just like in the movies? If this A.I. surge is in any way successful, this could be a transformation of humanity and civilization that will change the way we live our lives for the foreseeable future!

And yet here we are in 2026, where A.I. has had it’s time to fully settle into our daily lives after taking the world by storm just a few years ago. We are now in a time in figuring out if A.I. is really going to benefit us in the long run or will it just evaporate the human race quicker than Rob Schneider in a bed room! After this surge with artificial intelligence that has been pushed HARD by companies and billionaire tech bros from all across the world, is A.I. REALLY living up to the hype? Well, if the “hype” of the likes of VRs, 3D TVs, Crypto, NFTs, Metaverse, etc…. is anything to by? I will definitely say no!

I can’t speak for everybody but I really don’t think A.I. is this incredible achievement that we’ve been promised from the likes of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and insert any other infamous white billionaire you can think of! Despite promises that it would unlock new and exciting ways on how we go about our daily lives and how it will make living on earth all the more easier, it has done the complete opposite of that!

Instead of doing things that people would actually want A.I. to do such as coding, doing our chores, and finding a cure for cancer, it instead has been used to suck the life, joy, and humanity out of everything! We have people using A.I. to create imaginary robot friends from themselves, we have people using A.I. to do their homework for them with no repercussions, we have people using A.I. to make awful looking fan fiction and deepfake trailers that can easily make a million views on Tiktok and YouTube, we have people using A.I. to create literal fake news, and we even have people using A.I. to developing plans and strategies for the U.S. military! (Seriously, whoever is doing that needs to be send home ASAP!) And the results have been universally DISASTROUS!

Not only as A.I. done the exact opposite in expanding the human mind and making our lives better like we were promised, it has made everything significantly WORSE! Kids are becoming even dumber and flunking in their classes, adults are losing their jobs and being forced to cut back on spending, copyright and lawsuits are being thrown out the window as soulless companies continue to give into these billionaire tech bros, and creativity and visionary in entertainment is on absolute life support! And don’t even get me started on how electricity bills have skyrocketed and prices for RAMS, PCs, and video game consoles are at an all-time high, in large part due to providing funding for these A.I. tech companies who are too lazy NOT making the kind of A.I. the public actually wants! Needlessly to say, I’m REALLY f**king sick of A.I.! And if what I’ve been reading and the reactions all over the internet I’ve been seeing is true, so does the majority of the human population!

Despite promises that A.I. would make the work of businesses much easier and cheaper, it hasn’t done any of that! Data has shown that over 90% of A.I. tech companies in the past year have falling under and 95% of generative A.I. pilots are failing with making any useful A.I.! You have movie studios like Lionsgate that has struggled massively on making A.I.-generated films with Runway and have pretty much given up on that completely! Even Dell, A.K.A. one of MicroSLOP’s (See what I did there!) biggest partners, is admitting that customers don’t give a crap about their “A.I.” features with their PCs! Putting all those facts into your own head along with reading article after article of companies admitting that A.I. is NOT benefiting them in any way, shape, or form, I don’t think artificial intelligence is what it has been made out to be.

To make matters even worse, even though A.I. has gain more revenue since 2022 (Last year, it’s estimated that it made up to $16 billion in revenue), it is still NO WHERE near enough to where it’s going to need to be by the end of this decade! Analysis have stated than in order for these high tech A.I. companies to make the profit they need in order for it all to be worthwhile, they will need to start earning TWO TRILLION DOLLARS annually by 2030! That is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Nividia COMBINED! Studies have shown that A.I. tech companies are currently on pace to be over $800 billion SHORT for where they will need to be by the end of the decade! Unless they are able to find quick and useful ways to make A.I. popular among the general population, they are BEYOND screwed for the future!

So much so that recent reports have come out that OpenAI is RAPIDLY losing money the longer it goes on, projecting to lose up to $14 billion in 2026 ALONE! And if they can’t get another round of funding from the U.S. government or some other notable rich source, they could run completely out of money as soon as NEXT YEAR! (And considering Trump’s recent comments about A.I. companies being on their own now, I’m willing to bet that Sammy boy will not be so fortunate!) If that’s not a sign that A.I. is NOT the future revolutionary we have been promised and is just another tech bubble that’s going to pop soon, I don’t know what is!

The main question is that if A.I. is a bubble, then why are there still so much money being thrown at it and other companies are still eager to join the bot merry-go-round?! Well, that might have to do with the fact that the entire U.S. economy is currently being strung together at the moment with A.I.! So much so that President Trump have exempted A.I. gear from his so-called tariffs in order for the current GDP to continue to grow and to help fund the big tech companies!

To put it simply, if it wasn’t for this heavy A.I. investment, we all would be in a recession right now! The entire economy of the United States of f**king America is nothing more than one enormous bet on A.I.! And right now, it does not look like that the bet is gonna pay off!

I’m sure most of my readers are old enough to remember of a certain stock market crash that happened around 2008! This was a market crash that was caused by the housing bubble bursting in 2007! That led to the world’s greatest recession since The Great Depression, leading to many jobs lost, spending plummeting, and more people being homeless in generations! And the only ones that did NOT suffer from this live changing disaster are the companies and rich assholes that caused the bubble in the first place! Because no mass arrests took place on Wall Street, that led to many people losing faith in institutions and whatever trust they still had in our government! That event alone might’ve just been the thing that has led to America and the whole world to the boiling point where it is today!

And if recent studies and reports are accurate, we could be in for a new world of hurt for 2026 and 2027! Yet again, we have a big financial bubble that everyone knows is gonna burst! Yet again, that exact bubble is caused by a handful of big corporations and well-known infamous names spending more money willy nilly than they should! And yet again, the bubble popping could do great damage to our economy where anyone that is not rich and famous is going to suffer big time! The only difference this time is that this will be an extremely boom or bust scenario!

If in some fantasy world where the A.I. boom and Trump tariffs actually ends up paying off, this could lead to the healthiest and wealthiest economy that America hasn’t seen since the 90s or at least be on the level that it was before Covid. However, in a more realistic world, we could end up in a world that see a mish-mash of the 2008 crash and the 2021 inflation rise on STEROIDS! Although, either one of these outcomes won’t be remotely possible unless the A.I. bubble does indeed burst!

This all leads me to the one question that I posted in the title of this piece: Is it time to pull the plug on A.I.?

Despite having this much time, money, resources, and coverage around it, it doesn’t seem to provide even a quarter of the quality that we have been promised since the hype train started! It hasn’t improved our daily lives, it hasn’t been able to unlock all these amazing things that we couldn’t do before, and it’s only making society dumber and dumber the more advance that it gets!

And even if we do get A.I. that actually is able to do any one of these revolutionary things they said it would do, it could cost the majority of the population their jobs, given us less income than before, and also provide less human interactions than ever before. Oh, and that’s not even going into the SLIGHT chance of making Terminators become an actual f**king reality!

While there isn’t going to be an easy way to deal with this matter, I do believe that it is indeed time to pull the plug on A.I.! Not in the sense that it will go away entirely but it’s time to stop shoving it down our throats and cramming it into things that we do not need it for! Over hundreds of millions to billions dollars have been BURNED trying to create an A.I. that would actually be useful and resourceful and they have completely failed to do so! Even if we do get hit hard in the same way we did in 2008 or perhaps in 2001 when the internet/dot.com bubble popped, it will be worth it because at least some sort of the human experience will still be preserved, the kind of experience that A.I. can simply NEVER replicate no matter how good it is!

What should happen once this bubble does burst is to put the focus on A.I. that will actually do the things that we actually WANT it do for us! Use it to help with coding, use it to help co-edit a piece we write or video we make, use it to do all of our dirty work that we don’t want to do, use it for advance scientific research and finding a cure for cancer, and most important thing of all, use it as a TOOL and NOT as a means to replace humanity entirely!

A.I. should exist to ASSIST us, NOT replace us! We don’t want it to make a bunch of slop that is hard to watch, take away our jobs and destroy the overall human experience! We just want it to HELP us, nothing more and nothing less! And if you can’t create an A.I. that can do that, then maybe you should just give up on it all together and stop trying to make science fiction into literally non-fiction!

Until Elon, Mark, Jeff, and Sam chun out whatever their next advance tech that is gonna change humanity forever, I will see you all next time!

Other comments:

• I was actually gonna do a review for the new film Mercy but a.) the snowstorm took a hit on me and b.) I’m pretty sure there’s nothing I can say about A.I. there then what I would say here! That would be my review in a nutshell!

• I do fully expected A.I. to result in the same way that 3D movies and tv were after the late 2000s/early 2010s! It will still be around but it won’t be shoved down your throat the way it is now!

• Seriously, I still remember how a commercial for EVERY SINGLE NEW MOVIE being about how you have to see it in 3D or else you will miss the “ultimate” experience! Thank god, they stopped with that!

• I really need to get my story going about a teenage boy navigating his way through high school in the age of A.I.! I don’t know how much longer the A.I. cycle is gonna be by the time I’m done with my first book!

• Oh, and here’s a video of Ben Affleck with an incredibly BASED take on A.I.!