20250426 - Google’s AI Overview directly takes readers away from its own source sites
Release Date: 04/26/2025
20250514 - Musk’s xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis with smog
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For the good of humanity! Or a portion thereof Please send money! It’s very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: ‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis New images reveal Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter has nearly doubled its number of polluting, unpermitted gas turbines Musk's xAI data centre allegedly running illegal gas turbines Musk’s xAI explores another massive methane gas turbine installation at second South Memphis data center
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20250513 - If AI is so good at coding ... where’s the open source?
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Show me the pull requests. Text version: Please send money! It’s very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI Mark Zuckerberg – Meta's AGI Plan O’Reilly: Benjamin J. Evans “Show me the Pull Requests.” “Show me the Pull Requests.” Rails: Improve Password Length Validation for BCrypt Compatibility #47708 Servo: dom: Implement WritableStream #34844 https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/34844...
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20250512 - Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors!
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Now try to claim a payout. Text version: Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon: Patreon (corporate rate): Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt for the office: Sources: Airline held liable for its chatbot giving passenger bad advice - what this means for travellers DPD error caused chatbot to swear at customer Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors Armilla Launches Affirmative AI Liability Insurance with Lloyd's Underwriter, Chaucer Previously on Pivot to AI: FTC takes on another swathe of...
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20250511 - Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs
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But it totally hasn’t yet, honest! Text version: Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: "FYI: Soundcloud's Terms of Services" SoundCloud Terms of Use SoundCloud Terms of Use (11 February 2024) SoundCloud Terms of Use (12 February 2024) AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive "I don't have that verbiate on the Canadian terms of service, in that section" SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to...
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20250510 - Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work
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And hiring managers too. Text version: Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Source: PNAS: Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI Previously on Pivot to AI: Generative AI: ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’ video:
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20250509 - Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job
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what do you mean I can’t get something for nothing Text version: Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: Talking to Chatbots Is Now a $200K Job. So I Applied (2023) Indeed’s 2024 US Jobs & Hiring Trends Report: Reasons for Cautious Optimism (2023) The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete ‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct
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20250508 - Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the grave
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What this means for the rest of us. Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through AI video A.I. of Murdered Chris Pelkey Makes His Own Impact Statement at Sentencing (a court 1st), with Judge Judge Todd Lang's Reaction to Chris Pelkey's A.I. Impact Statement During Sentencing, 5/1/2025
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20250507 - AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care
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If you build it, they will not, in fact, come. Text version: Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: Intel Reports First-Quarter 2025 Financial Results Q1 2025 Intel Corporation Earnings Conference Call (video) Q1 2025 Intel Corp Earnings Call (transcript) Intel's AI PC chips aren't selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom Qualcomm, Microsoft Lean on AI Hype to Spur PC Market Revival Copilot PCs represent only a tiny fraction of...
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20250506 - OpenAI tries a new scheme to go for-profit
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Elon Musk doesn’t buy it. Text version: Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: Evolving OpenAI’s structure Who Owns OpenAI? Musk v. Altman (PDF) Sam Altman hands Elon Musk a win, scrapping OpenAI’s for-profit plan OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit business Microsoft Is Key Holdout for OpenAI Restructuring Plan Previously on Pivot to AI: OpenAI ditches non-profit board, becomes venture capital lottery ticket OpenAI’s for-profit plan is...
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20250505 - UK backtracks on AI ‘opt out’ scheme for creative works
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The Data Act goes to Parliament this week. Text version: Sources: Why are creatives fighting UK government AI proposals on copyright? Ministers to amend data bill amid artists’ concerns over AI and copyright Ministers reconsider changes to UK copyright law ahead of vote Publishers’ Licensing Services and Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society create ‘pioneering’ AI licence Previously on Pivot to AI: Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again. UK government wants to give AI companies free access...
info_outlineAn AI overview reduces clicks on the original sources 20%–35%.
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/26/googles-ai-overview-directly-takes-readers-away-from-its-own-source-sites/
The Man Who Killed Google Search https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
"Keep in mind that the Ads team is considering calling a code yellow to close the search gap we are seeing" (PDF) https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417581.pdf
Glue pizza and eat rocks: Google AI search errors go viral https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o
Google’s Elizabeth Reid: ‘Human curiosity is boundless and people ask a lot of questions’ https://www.ft.com/content/decc6853-4fff-448c-b1c3-be8824ab511f
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-overviews-reduce-clicks/
Google AI Overviews: New CTR Study Reveals How to Navigate Negative SERP Impact https://www.amsive.com/insights/seo/google-ai-overviews-new-research-reveals-how-to-navigate-click-drop-off/
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/
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