The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

But why are the CEOs insisting so much on AI? Because stock investors prefer to invest on anything with "AI inside". So the "AI business model" would not collapse , because it is what investors want. It is a bubble. It will be bubbly for a while, until it isn't.

Because it can, will and has increase productivity in a lot of fields.

Of course it’s a bubble! Most new tech like this is until it gets to a point where the market is too saturated or has been monopolised.

Yeah literally every new tech like this has literally everyone investing in it and trying lots of silly ideas. The web, mobile apps, cryptocurrencies, doesn't mean they are fundamentally useless (though cryptocurrencies have yet to make anything successful beyond Bitcoin).

I bet if you go back to the printing press, telegraph, telephone, etc. you will find people saying "it's only a bubble!".

I don't think people had the concept of a bubble at the time of a printing press.

That whole Danish tulips thing taught us about bubbles a pretty long time ago, when the printing press was still getting popular.