The AI industry is run by charlatans like Scam Altman . They've stoked fear to hype their products and push the U.S. government into building regulatory moats that secure their market share.

They don’t "know" like humans. They predict text that seems right, based on math and training data. That's it.

Yet we see endless posts: "I got Grok to admit…" or "ChatGPT confessed…" People treat them like conscious beings. It’s absurd. There’s no awareness, no mind-just pattern generation. Thinking a chatbot is alive is like running "I’m alive" through a copier and believing the copier is sentient.

That "AI chatbot blackmailing a guy to avoid being deleted" story? Pure spin. In a lab experiment, it spit out predictable sci-fi tropes because that's what it’s been trained on. It wasn't acting—it was guessing. It wasn't doing real things without permission to do so.

These systems also make things up. Less than before, but it still happens. If you build something to guess, it won’t always guess right.

The real problem isn't AI—it's people. Many fundamentally misunderstand what AI is and isn't. That ignorance is being exploited to pump company valuations. Venture capital demands huge returns. Add fiat-fueled hype cycles, and you get the biggest AI bubble yet. Altman feeds the fear with AGI stories, but Hollywood has been priming us for decades.

"Artificial" implies a working substitute. What we have is simulation—designed to trick you, not to be real. A submarine can do whale-like things, but it’s not a whale. Same with AI: it's not alive and won’t "wake up" any more than a sub would decide to join a pod.

But like any tool, it can be used for harm. Some already see AI as a demi-god. That belief will grow, and some will act on it—possibly violently.

AI has utility, but the hype is overblown. History shows this isn't a revolution-just the next step in computing.