Korean blogger: the AI gold rush is a giant casino feeding on side-hustle dreams
sebpaquet · x · 2026-10-25
A long-form Korean post argues the AI market increasingly resembles a giant casino thriving on people's dreams of self-actualization and side income.
- In the GPT and early Claude Code era, AI was a news curiosity or a developer productivity tool; with latest models plus video and music generation, non-coders can now build websites, indie games and short films, turning AI into a self-actualization tool.
- The author dissects the gap between ideal and reality: instant outputs create an "omnipotence trap" — like slot machines, dopamine peaks while anticipating a reward — making people confuse the joy of making with the reality of earning and overestimate their odds of a side-hustle windfall.
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