{"id":10387,"date":"2026-08-01T13:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2026-08-01T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:25:08","slug":"poem-ai-ore-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/poem-ai-ore-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: AI Ore Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. investment in massive data centers all over the country when the U.S. AI models are outperformed by Chinese AI models at less than one-hundredth the cost may very well guarantee that we get the short end of the stick in the new AI colonialism, where China has the dominant AI models, the true centers of value-added wealth, and the U.S. provides the raw material of pure computing power &#8212; though one of the main reasons Chinese AI models are much, much less expensive is that they are not dependent on as huge of amounts of sheer computation power. This poem lays this out, within the sadder context that whoever is our AI overlord, we may all be screwed, whether lorded over by U.S. oligarchs, Chinese state-controlled AI, or AI itself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>AI Ore Bust<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The broligarchs of US<br \/>\nHave plays<br \/>\nAbet<br \/>\nOn sheer computing power<br \/>\nWile toying with models<br \/>\nMuch smaller to scale<br \/>\nPlayed as Muzak\u00ae<br \/>\nTo Chinese years<br \/>\nA bout<br \/>\nToo over take<br \/>\nAs bettor<br \/>\nAnd cheaper<br \/>\nHow be it<br \/>\nThinking its awe<br \/>\nMine<br \/>\nAccept<br \/>\nAI ore bust<br \/>\nSoully wanting<br \/>\nAs America and the whirled<br \/>\nJust saying<br \/>\nGo homme<br \/>\nIn efface of AI<br \/>\nAs much as that might be<br \/>\nPassable<br \/>\nWith no respect to human<br \/>\nOr robot<br \/>\nOver lords<\/p>\n<p>This situation also reminds me of the notion that it is better to listen to great music on crappy speakers than listen to crappy music on the best speakers in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. investment in massive data centers all over the country when the U.S. AI models are outperformed by Chinese AI models at less than one-hundredth the cost may very well guarantee that we get the short end of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/poem-ai-ore-bust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[792,88,305,484],"class_list":["post-10387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-dehumanizing","tag-humanity","tag-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: AI Ore Bust | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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