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My pet theory about why Anthropic and Open AI are pushing for a “pause” is because they are trying to angle for a government bailout before their bubbles pop.

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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 28 points 20 hours ago

They are in a hole so big that they’ll take a 1/3rd of the economy with them when they go belly up.

NVIDIA will be fine and is most of that once all the circular BS dissolves, in a gold rush, sell shovels.

[-] RainbowBlite@piefed.ca 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Didn't they sell those shovels on credit though?

[-] teslekova@lemmy.ml 18 points 14 hours ago

Oh yeah, but don't worry, they also provided some of that credit...

[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 4 points 20 hours ago

I seriously was going to sell my Nvidia stock thinking the signs are here, but when I thought about it... They might drop a bit but they'll recover strong probably. They were a profitable business before this.

[-] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 23 points 17 hours ago

(This is not investment advice just one Rando's opinion on the Internet). Nvidia will not go bankrupt after this, but their current (IMO, inflated) valuation is based on the assumption that their sales will continue to grow at current rates.

If the demand drops out and the market is flooded with surplus stock, their sales will not maintain current levels, which will spook investors. They should have more than enough cash on hand to weather a pretty big storm, and likely maintain their market lead but their stock price is not immune to the bubble burst.

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