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I‘m not sure this works in reverse. If demand is indeed high, you could show that with market data. But if you have marked data e.g. showing high valuation of AI companies, or x many requests over some period, that doesn’t mean necessarily that demand is high. In other words, marked data is necessary but not sufficient to prove your claim.

Reasons for market data seemingly showing high demand without there actually being one include: Market manipulation (including marketing campaigns), artificial or inflated demand, forced usage, hype, etc. As an example NFTs, Bitcoin, and supersonic jet travel all had “an insane market data” which seemed at the time to show that there was a huge demand for these things.

My prediction is that we are in the early Concord era of supersonic jet travel and Boeing is racing to catch up to the promise of this technology. Except that in an unregulated market such as the current tech market, we have forgone all the safety and security measures and the Concord has made its first passenger flight in 1969 (as opposed to 1976), with tons of fan fare and all flights fully booked months in advance.

Note that in the 1960 it was market forecasts had the demand for Concord to build 350 airplanes by 1980, and at the time the first prototypes were flying they had 74 options. Only 20 were every built for passenger flight.



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