AI critic Ed Zitron exposes the $1+ trillion AI bubble as a con: unprofitable companies burning billions, hallucinating outputs, subsidized adoption hiding true costs, and a reckoning coming around 2027 when OpenAI and others run out of capital. OpenAI lost $20.9 billion last year while burning subsidized tokens worth $14,000 monthly per $200 subscriber, revealing an economically unsustainable business model.