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AI Is Too Expensive
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · 19 May 2026 · 39 min read
A post on wheresyoured.at, published 19 May 2026, is cited by 8 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 14 October 2026).
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8blogs citing
| Period | Blogs | Links |
|---|---|---|
| All time | 8 | 8 |
| Last 90 days | 0 | 0 |
| Last 30 days | 0 | 0 |
| Last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First cited | 19 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Latest citation | 8 Jun 2026 |
| Words blogs link it with | 5 |
| Linked with its own title | 2 of 8 blogs |
| External links | 59 |
| Length | 8,776 |
0 this week (still settling) · peak 3
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| Week of | Value |
|---|---|
| 18 May 2026 | 3 |
| 25 May 2026 | 3 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 1 |
| 8 Jun 2026 | 1 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 22 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 29 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 6 Jul 2026 | 0 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | 0 |
| 20 Jul 2026 | 0 |
| 27 Jul 2026 | 0 |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 7 Sept 2026 | 0 |
| 14 Sept 2026 | 0 |
| 21 Sept 2026 | 0 |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 0 (still settling) |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 0 (still settling) |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 0 (still settling) |
Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.
Who cited it
Cited by 8 blogs across 3 subjects: technology 5, arts and culture 1, society and politics 1, unclassified 1.
- Technology5
- Arts and culture1
- Society and politics1
- Unclassified1
Words blogs link it with
The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.
- ai is too expensive2 blogs
- already abysmally low revenue1 blog
- ed zitron’s accounting this past week1 blog
- so expensive1 blog
- subsidising demand1 blog
Cited by 8 blogs in 8 posts
One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.
Blog
Newest citing post
Date
Speedysnail1 post
Speedysnail · No Way I
linked as ““There’s allegedly incredible, unstoppable, insatiable demand for compute. Why isn’t it lining up?””
Read at speedysnail.com (opens in a new tab)8 Jun 2026
DSHR's Blog1 post
2 Jun 2026
mikethemadbiologist.com1 post
29 May 2026
Moral Recordings1 post
Making the Plagiarism Machine Write Code Still Counts as Plagiarism
linked as “subsidising demand”
Read at moral.net.au (opens in a new tab)26 May 2026
montrealethics.ai1 post
The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain
linked as “Ed Zitron’s accounting this past week”
Read at montrealethics.ai (opens in a new tab)26 May 2026
Infinite Regress1 post
Thursday links, This is fine! edition
linked as “already abysmally low revenue”
Read at blog.miljko.org (opens in a new tab)21 May 2026
da.vebrig.gs1 post
https://da.vebrig.gs/2026/05/20/26740/
linked as “AI Is Too Expensive”
Read at da.vebrig.gs (opens in a new tab)20 May 2026
gherlein1 post
AI Inference Costs: The Wake-Up Call for 2026 and 2027
linked as ““AI Is Too Expensive””
Read at blog.herlein.com (opens in a new tab)19 May 2026
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