Yesterday we talked about real stuff. Today, we talk about fakes.

Our Silicon Valley Tech Bro Overlords have finally lost the thread. They’ve saturated the market with tools, toys, gizmos, and gadgets, all promising us a better life. That didn’t work, so they penetrated every aspect of our lives with increasingly glitchy software that demands our continuous attention.

They won. They took over the world.

But it wasn’t enough. They want more.

Case in point—Sam Altman.

This sleazy con artist has a “new” idea. His company is going to make a new product. We don’t know what it is. (Neither does he.) We don’t know what it will do. We really don’t know anything about it at all, except Sam tells us he’ll sell “100 million units” by next year, and that it will be the next “core” item on your desk, right next to your MacBook and your iPhone.

The company is OpenAI. The product is some kind of AI-thingie. You’ve probably heard of ChatGPT, which is OpenAI’s flagship product. This product is enormously expensive. The company loses money every single time someone uses it.

But that’s not important. One thing these guys don’t ever have to worry about is money. They have lots. And rich people give them more all the time. How do you think Uber stays in business?

So Sam has a new idea and it’s a “device” that will be AI-driven and will be part of your life and there will be 100 million of them in the world by next year. This is according to the you-can’t bullshit-us Wall Street Journal:

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman gave his staff a preview Wednesday of the devices he is developing to build with the former Apple designer Jony Ive, laying out plans to ship 100 million AI “companions” that he hopes will become a part of everyday life.

So even the staid, straight-laced WSJ loves tech hype and bullshit.

Look: OpenAI isn’t going to deliver 100 million of anything! This is ALL GARBAGE. There is no new killer device. There is no new killer app. At best, we will get incremental improvements in our existing tech. Like, they will get better batteries.

And OpenAI is certainly not going to deliver a product that has not yet been created.

This is just more of the bullshit universe these clowns inhabit. All Sam Altman is doing is taking a page from the Elon Must playbook. When your company is losing money and can’t find a way to make a proper product that people want to buy, then hype up a bunch of fancy new ideas and tell your shareholders that these things are “just around the corner.” The credulous fools who own your stock will buy more and tell their friends to buy more and the result will be that the stock price will go up and everyone will get richer.

Meanwhile the company still sucks. And the products don’t sell. Yet Altman claims his new product will add ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in value to the company. Man, I wish I knew that math!

The so-called AI industry has failed to create anything. There is no consumer AI product that’s anywhere close to mass adoption. We used to call this “faking it” but now we call it entrepreneurship.

Don’t give billionaires the benefit of the doubt. When they spew their stupid bullshit, call them on it. Every time Sam Altman or the other Tech Bros open their mouths to tell us their “vision” just say “fake news” over and over again.

Then turn off your computer and go outside.