*For context, Kupperman notes that Netflix brings in just $39 billion in annual revenue from its 300 million subscribers. If AI companies charged Netflix prices for their software, they'd need to field over 3.69 billion paying customers to make a standard profit on data center spending alone — almost half the people on the planet.

"Simply put, at the current trajectory, we're going to hit a wall, and soon," he fretted. "There just isn’t enough revenue and there never can be enough revenue. The world just doesn’t have the ability to pay for this much AI."*