As the AI bubble collapses, it's time for the tech industry to repent, and to recognize that the future cannot be decided entirely by four or five trillion-dollar firms that are no longer capable of innovation, only copying other people's ideas. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the generative AI boom shows how little big tech cares about actual innovation - and how this might eventually lead to their collapse. LINKS: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a>  Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a> Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a>  Discord: <a href="chat.wheresyoured.at ">chat.wheresyoured.at  </a> Ed's Socials: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/edzitron">http://www.twitter.com/edzitron</a>  <a href="instagram.com/edzitron ">instagram.com/edzitron </a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social </a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@edzitron">https://www.threads.net/@edzitron</a> See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.