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How the Slop (So-called 'AI') Bubble Will Burst Next Year

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2025

Correction imminent

Some reputable sites already talk about the slop bubble as if it's already bursting or just about to burst. Put side differences about times and particulars about companies; there's a general consensus that 1) we're dealing with a bubble and 2) it'll pop or is already popping.

At the core, or the core issue is: the money does not actually exist! Those companies know that money doesn't grow on trees and technical endeavours that bring no actual income (or profit) will eventually perish because nobody will fund these.

Before COVID-19 (one yardstick, not the sole yardstick) tech giants already faced several crises and performance barriers. Facebook was rotting away (now it wants to start charging users to post links!), Windows wasn't "selling" (licensing ) well, and Google had mass layoffs. When we say "yardstick" we mean a significant event rather than a metric or something measurable. Those problem didn't start brewing in 2019 (excuses, excuses). A year later Microsoft was bailed out by the Trump regime (billions received from taxpayers "because COVID"; no strings attached) and since then the US debt surged by about 15 trillion dollars:

This is what it looks like when you bail our billionaires. It's not hard to see where "their money" really comes from.

Now they tell us there's some kind of "AI revolution" and that the "AI economy" is valued at many trillions.

Oh, really?

So there will be a "Big Correction" (or "reset"). The public became too poor to buy XBox consoles and Apple gadgets (hence Apple's recent troubles). The rich got richer and the "market rallies" were based on fictional "value" or people who got paid in shares (stock) instead of real money in the bank.

2026 will be an awful year for GAFAM and for IBM. There are already talks about mass layoffs in January. Of course they'll twist these as "because of AI" or "owing to AI". █