Better Offline

Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

March 27, 2026·10 min·2-min readsolotechnology
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Sora, OpenAI's video generation model, has been shut down due to unsustainable costs and lack of product-market fit, exposing a media ecosystem that blindly amplified AI hype without scrutiny. Meanwhile, the promised AI data center boom isn’t materializing, with most projects stalled or n

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Books, people, and resources mentioned in this episode.

People

Ed Zed TrunkSam AltmanJensen HuangCasey Kagawa

Companies

DisneyNVIDIAFermi

Products & Tools

Sora

Research & Papers

Darling of TD Cohen

Topics

Artificial IntelligenceFact CheckMachine LearningStartupsTech IndustryVenture Capital

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