AI: The Marketing Genius Wall Street Swallowed Whole

"It was billed as the next industrial revolution — alien super-intelligence showing up just in time to rescue us from ourselves. Who needs real jobs or intelligent life when we can build both in a lab?

You'll live in a VR utopia, robots serving digital cocktails while you bang your AI girlfriend. Be offended: sex sells, and the sex doll assembly lines are already ramping. AI chatbots are the only best friend many GenXers have — Addictive? No doubt, for some - next stop: full significant partner status, with human rights (no joke). 😂  

 For us techies, the thought of blazing fast chips, bigger racks (that's what he said), more computing power, better-faster-stronger really gets the juices flowing. Ok; That’s the whole investment thesis: now hand over your billions, and wait for the surprise.  Astronomical capex bills with zero guarantees. 

But anyone who has used AI for more than 5 minutes quickly realizes that it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's fast - I'll grant you that - but calling it intelligent is a gross mischaracterization. The manual clearly states: "still has trouble with common sense" (reasoning). "Hallucinates" at random. It is always quick with a polite answer, but often the incorrect one. e.g. In the linked video [left]: User asks:"ChatGPT "I need to know; what does the 'S', in ChatGPT stand for?" The answer offers nearly 2 minutes of pure comedy.

Real life example just yesterday: Reviewing yesterday's action and trying to find the next - most likely - sector rotation. My comment: "$TRAN can certainly bounce back.

Any other ideas where we might see a sector rotation, based on earnings release momentum?"

Grok's answer: "Financials ($XLF) — quietly coiling near 50-day. Earnings season tailwind + higher-for-longer narrative = easy algo fuel if rates stay rigged higher." Sounds great right? Put your money back in your pocket and read the chart.

$XLF in fact is not trading anywhere near the 50 day moving average, and bank earnings kicked off weeks ago. #EpicFail.  "= easy algo fuel if rates stay rigged higher."? That's mostly word salad. Press Grok when it totally misses the ball, and it will say things like "Got it", or even "sorry" - other times it will deny ever making contradictory statements. Look if I want bad advice, and deception I have plenty of cable news channels to choose from. 

AI may suck when it comes to giving sound financial advice, BUT after using AI intensively for several months, I can attest to the fact that it has increased my productivity, and even broadening my horizons, on more than just how to compose a better blog layout/ with better flow/transitions/. i.e. Before AI; bullet points were too much of a nuisance to be bothered with. Today I'm composing a multi-part series, and compilations that tie together everything I've been writing about the past 15 years. But these blogs don't write themselves. The creative ideas all flow from one place, and my work ethic gets most the credit. That's all me. 

Who's Already Packing Their Desk

Claims processors, data entry, basic customer service reps, paralegals doing document review, junior coders, medical billing, and — in my wife's world specifically — insurance underwriting assistants. 

"Copilot isn't a tool. It's an audit — figuring out exactly how many of you they no longer need."

If you can be replaced by a super-fast encyclopedia that parrots whatever narrative you feed it and regurgitates stuff you could find online with a decent search query, then it's already time to start packing your bags. Lower income wage earners need not apply. 

Exposing the Lie Wall Street Swallowed Whole

Don't take my word for it. Julian Whatley spent 30 years making audiences believe impossible things on screen. Here's what he sees when he looks at AI:

Julian Whatley What AI Actually Is MUST SEE 12min Video
AI The biggest 200-millisecond statistical con of the 21st century

Julian Whatley called it perfectly: “It generates an answer in under 200 milliseconds. But it isn’t reasoning — it’s a mechanical parrot running a perceptual con." And how did this shiny new toy became the perfect vehicle to revive animal instincts required for investors to glom onto the same old MAG7 relics of the past — plus a dozen has-beens like $IBM and even $TXN — that have been leading the bubble economy for the past 30 years?  And Wall Street's response to the mechanical parrot? Throw trillions at it. That's trillions with a 'T'.

AI Investment Fuels Animal Instincts - The Greatest Snow Job In History

James Cramer didn't invent the herd mentality playbook. He plagiarized it. "Animal spirits" was coined in 1936 by economist John Maynard Keynes during the Depression — his term for the raw, irrational emotion that drives herds off cliffs. A warning. Filed under: things to fear.

Fast forward to 2008. The subprime mortgage machine collapses. An entire generation of investors wiped out, and left with a bad taste in their mouths. The cameras swing to Jim Cramer on Mad Money, and suddenly Keynes' cautionary phrase is being shouted at a new generation of retail investors as a buy signal. Animal spirits: now a feature, not a bug.

Act One: FAANG. Mostly .com retreads with better PR. Act Two: The Magnificent Seven. Act Three: "AI hyperscalers." The same 7 to 20 names, bloated into the most concentrated market the Street has ever engineered — all running on the same recycled psychology, repackaged for a new crop of young investors chasing the next hot narrative. Hidden in plain sight.

And Goldman? Poster child for subprime fraud in 2008. Poster child for AI hyperscalers in 2025. Same firm. Same model. New shiny product, same tide of liquidity lifting the same investment banks while the next generation of marks lines up.

Every time you hear "animal spirits" and "transformative productivity" in the same breath, understand what's actually being said: you are the product. The retail investor — steady job, 401(k), watching CNBC over breakfast — is the fuel. Not the beneficiary. The fuel.

That's not a market. That's a roulette wheel

P.S. In Part II: The Latest Sector Rotation Nobody's Talking About — we'll show you exactly how the FOMO trade is fueling the AI bubble in ways that would've seemed like science fiction five years ago. Subscribe 

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