Fake It Til You Make It Is Now the Entire AI Business Model

This week we're chasing the great Silicon Valley pivot panic. The moment every company decides it's secretly an AI company, evidence be damned! Midjourney, the people who make AI pictures of cats in hats, have decided their next move is… scanning your entire body. Welcome to Midjourney Medical, where you'll strip down, descend into a pool of "golden light," and float through a ring of underwater sensors that allegedly out-MRI an MRI in 60 seconds. They're calling it "Ultrasonic CT" — which is neither a CT nor radiation, it's an ultrasound (and one they licensed from a company called Butterfly Network for ~$74M, not invented themselves). It's a Gen-1 prototype with zero FDA clearance, and actual radiologists have politely noted that sound waves can't get through bone, air, or deep tissue — so good luck imaging "the whole body." But sure, billion scans a month by 2031. The first spa opens in San Francisco in 2027, hot tubs included.Then: Allbirds. Yes, the wool sneaker people. They sold off the entire shoe business for $39M and rebranded as an AI compute company, first "NewBird AI," now apparently Smartbird, buying up GPUs to lease out to the AI gold rush. The stock leapt nearly 600% the second they said "AI" out loud. Worth noting: the company was once valued at $4 billion and the pivot's whole vibe is straight out of 2017, when Long Island Iced Tea became "Long Blockchain" and got delisted within a year.And finally, the Y Combinator of it all: the cultural engine where lab fellows are nudged to raise money on the idea before the product actually works. Fake it till you make it, now an institutional business model. So is this the AI bubble inflating its final breath, or is everything genuinely AI now? We have thoughts. Most of them sarcastic.🎧 New episodes every week. Subscribe so you're there when the next shoe company becomes a server farm.Follow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypodEmail us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com