AI has infested the world as no parasite had ever done before. Forget The Last of Us and its cordyceps: this thing somehow finds its way even into places that never had a thing to do with AI before. Printers, the agricultural sector, even your plumbing and communal upkeep services are turning into AI companies now and taking multibillion IPOs. Why? It’s a fad, a trend. And maybe it’s on its way out.

After several tech companies reported on subpar earnings, and some even on how AI seems to have ruined their revenue streams, a massive stock selloff was triggered, taking hardware producer Intel down by over 30 percent and putting it on track to go below its 1971 IPO levels. The Nasdaq-100 is down 10 percent since Oct. 6, and just about every single company related to AI took a hit, big or small.

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Google (Alphabet) dropped 12.49 percent in the last five days following an earnings report that allegedly indicated AI overviews butchered its main revenue stream.…