God, the faces. Why don't the boosters see how wrong the expressions are? Especially the videos, half the time they look like serial killers who are about to sneeze.
It wouldn't matter if everyone came to their senses today. All the money that's been invested into AI is gone. It has been turned into heat and swiftly-depreciating assets and can never be recouped.
Also highly recommend Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee.
It's got romance. It's got swashbuckling. It's got vendettas. A woman smashes a genocidal empire with mathemagic. Conversely, the empire's greatest general is an effortlessly cool gay dude with dyscalculia from the Korean part of Space Texas who lives in people's shadows, and it makes sense how that happened. The genocide happens because of a lone maniac's insane tech debt. Different factions try to subvert each other via cleverly designed board games. There are soooo many unhealthy relationships.
How long till the next-gen grifters thought leaders begin filtering into sneerspaces en masse and claiming that they saw the collapse coming before anyone else?
This escaped containment fast