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Ed Zitron · FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2026
Venture capitalists disagree on what constitutes AI's valuation legitimacy
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Half the bubble is real and the other half is not. Everyone disagrees on which half is which. The money is real.
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Ed Zitron
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Legal AI cannot reduce costs; billable hours remain efficient profit center
AI Snake Oil
Researchers examined seventy-eight election deepfakes and concluded AI misinformation remains peripheral
AI Snake Oil
Math proofs now generated by systems; proof verification remains unsolved problem
Import AI
Agents break, trains train, vision fails harder than text generation
Import AI
AI progress plateau persists; announcement of plateau treated as new insight
AI Snake Oil
Continuous AI use documented as health hazard; usage patterns accelerate regardless
ZDNet AI
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