Financiers and Sponsors of the Slop Hype (Pyramid Scheme Waiting to End, Bubble That Will Inevitably Implode)
Recent: Financing of the "Hey Hi" (AI) Bubble by Those Who Profit From Planetary Destruction (Global Warming) | "GPT-5" is Another Microsoft Dead Cat Trying to Bounce
Having just mentioned slopfarms (lots of low-quality garbage, alas dispatched in high-quantity doses or 'throughput'), let's remind ourselves who stands to benefit: copyright bandits (plagiarism), disinformation operations, and fraudsters looking for low-hanging fruit to fall for their scams, which may include some company with a ".ai" suffix or a fake currency with persistent, mystical storytelling [1, 2].
We don't want to point the finger at "oil" as there tends to be a racial/religious connotation even if countries like Venezuela, Nigeria and Russia produce (extract and refine rather) lots of it; few nations in the world are deserts that have nothing to offer except airports/airlines - i.e. fuel consumption - and of course oil wells; they cannot even produce their own food due to the climate. From what we can gather, a lot of the "hey hi" scammers raise funds from banks owned by those nations because obscene energy consumption means that a lot of their "invested" money gets "pumped back" in the form of power bills. It's sort of circular. Then there are hardware companies, which shrewdly rebranded GPUs with the latest buzzwords. They too ride the same capital (bubble), which can be traced back to oil. Put in very simple terms, you can create a thousand companies that are just a pile of debt (lending from oil-rich nations), adding up to trillions in "value" that does not even exist. They do nothing of real value, they just burn lots and lots of energy (they also pay the media to participate in the hype/scam), which means they increase energy demand and drive up oil prices. The lending, one might say, "pays for itself". It's also burning the planet, but Wall Street does not have "planet" in the balance-sheet assets. █