I’m guessing all the “confidential” chats that the users made with them are now on sale for the highest bidder
These grifters have been getting better and better at keeping a lid on their collapse. After all in my lifetime there have been several boom and busts. 1987 was the first crash I was aware of. After all this time they are getting better at staying rich through them and getting away with it.
There are going to be bail outs and a lot of working class people are going to have issues with their retirement funds with this bubble. The rich will always stay rich.
Character.AI was a LLM wrapper that was outdated in 2025 already. It didn’t do much in their own and certainly not produce technology that promises to replace half the worlds jobs.
Whether you like them or not, this is not a precedence for the AI companies that actually build AI.
Onward, the Butlerian Jihad!
Not sure, haven’t tried LM Studio.
If any of this shit made sense and worked like it was supposed to we wouldn’t be in this position in the first place. Seemingly the world leaders and everyone in the inner circles has completely abandoned any long term hope for their positions in the current system and are preparing for the next system. It really is true that the Earth has too many people and I think the long term planners are letting climate change happen without preparing the masses so fewer, stronger people survive. There is people planning this shit it’s not just arbitrarily short-term profits for the sake of it.
The earth does not have too many people though. We are not at risk of overpopulation by any real metric.
Resource scarcity is not a result of too many people needing not enough resources, but a result of those resources not being spread evenly. Whether because of geographical or political reasons, typically a mix of both.
It’s not about humanity it is about Earth. We aren’t meant to divide her resources to 8 billion people in any distribution. Your magical solution to distribute all resources evenly doesn’t really solve human driven climate change and destruction of our environments. And it’s not about convincing me ask yourself why would a commercial planet have too many staff members that’s bad for business.
We can use resources without causing climate change. Hell human cause climate change is a pretty recent development when it comes to human history, and it’s not because there’s more people.
And what the fuck are you talking about a “commercial planet” are you stupid.
For real, if we had even resource distribution I’d be building solar or something useful, but I have a mortgage so I guess I’ll just keep having this chatbot analyze financial statistics or whatever the fuck I’m doing
Human driven climate change is new, it is not sustainable. And commercial planet as in a commercial country you fucking moron.
You’re right. It’s not sustainable. It’s not the result of overpopulation though.
And yeah I still have no clue what that’s supposed to mean.
I don’t care about your opinion.
And that’s fine I don’t care if you don’t care to even google what it might mean.
It’s not an opinion though. Overpopulation is a fascist myth. If you actually bought into it you’d kill yourself but you haven’t yet. Because you know that’s stupid.
Also I did and didn’t find anything relevant to whatever nonsense you were saying so you’re just pulling shit outta your ass or using the wrong words.
Character.AI discovered the one conversation its bots couldn’t keep going: the one with its accountants. $56 million in compute costs in eight months, and the monetization strategy was apparently: hope the next investor is even lonelier than our users. Silicon Valley keeps confusing engagement with a business model.
I just got Qwen 3.8 Flash Next running locally. It’s damn good on an older machine with a newer GPU. Local LLMs should scare them the most.
Let’s hope the rest follows.
I am much more concerned about the Getty bankrupcy, because that was a major player in their market.
Character.ai have probably just played your typical startup game and lost it.
It will be interesting to see, but stories have come out for a while about some thing will pop the bubble, and a big recession has been right around the corner for at least a decade. What stage is this bubble in the progression to the .com pop, months, a year? Or is this different, with more profitable companies investing in infrastructure, rather than speculative startups without clear revenue plans? That was part of the take MMM made and I want to be hopeful. It reminded me about my circle of control, reduce attachment to outcomes beyond it, but do what I want within my circle. mrmoneymustache.com/2026/09/25/will-the-ai-bubble-destroy-our-retirement/
This is poised to be the biggest financial crash in history. These assholes are fighting every day to push the crash further away so they can divest themselves quietly or make ot to an IPO, and in doing so are making the upcoming disaster much worse.
And so much investment has been dumped into this scheme I don’t know how our economic system.will survive. Unchecked capitalism needs to go away, but having it collapse all at once is gonna be really, really bad.
This is silly, we can just print more money to cover the losses, ez pz !!!
