20250517 - How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data
Release Date: 05/17/2025
20250605 - Generative AI runs on gambling addiction: just one more prompt, bro!
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Vibe coding and chatbot girlfriends Text version: Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Sources: AI-first - We're just 6 months away from AGI ;-) The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect? Is GenAI Digital Cocaine? “try replacing ‘ai’ with ‘cocaine’ in all the posts you read about it. it's pretty funny” Hooked by Nir Eyal: (UK), (US) Wikipedia: Barnum...
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20250604 - Washington Post is going to AI to clean up amateur right-wing op-eds
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Surely there are more subscribers to lose Text version: Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Sources: The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’ The Washington Post Plans an Influx of Outside Opinion Writers Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again Embattled WaPo Publisher Met With Conservative Editor for Advice on Recruiting More Right-Wingers Despite Bezos’ Efforts to Shove WaPo Opinion to the Right, Op-Eds Still Taking Defiantly...
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20250603 - Let’s put more AI slop into advertising!
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Brought to you by Facebook and Veo. Text version: Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Sources: Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI Mark Zuckerberg says people can fill the need for friends with AI, but ‘there is no replacement’ for human relationships, psychologist says Google Veo 3: Creative thinkers must adapt to avoid disruption Consumers wary of AI-generated marketing content, AI-driven ad targeting Campaign Tech Awards Special thanks to Steve Farrugia, who gave me a pile of...
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20250602 - Fighting the AI scraper bots
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We are lucky they are so very stupid. Text version: Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Sources: 1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers jwz's Blog: Previously on Pivot to AI: What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025 That RationalWiki configuration fragment: set $BOT ""; if ($uri ~* (/w/index.php)) { set $BOT "C"; } Full Pivot to AI playlist:
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20250601 - Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says: AI will fix it!
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it was Google wot done it Text version: Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Sources: Business Insider layoff memo: rchive: Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it’s now 2024 Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI Previously on Pivot to AI: Google’s AI Overview directly takes readers away from its own source sites video: Full Pivot to AI playlist:
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20250531 - Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millions
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But we’ll make it up in volume Text version: Patreon: Patreon (enterprise rate): https://www.patreon.com/checkout/davidgerard?rid=6951364 Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Hey, go listen to me on the Phil Ferguson Show! (my bit starts about 16:40) Sources: Microsoft Touts AI Sales at Town Hall, Reveals Barclays Contract Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft Microsoft's non-profit AI adventures Microsoft’s CEO on How AI Will Remake Every Company,...
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20250530 - The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot
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sure, Pete Text version: Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: Reeves confirms 15% cut to Civil Service running costs State of digital government review The UK government thinks AI can do two-thirds of the most junior civil servants’ work RE: Methodology behind £45bn estimate in the State of Digital Government Review (PDF) Previously on Pivot to AI: ChatGPT predicts tremendous role for ChatGPT in UK government Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up...
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20250529 - Game studios love AI! The gamers ... hate it
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What do you want them to do? Pay artists? Text version: Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC. FORM 10-K For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (PDF) ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. Form 10-K For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (PDF) Ubisoft's NFT announcement video is overwhelmingly disliked “how are the ghost recon NFTs doing?”...
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20250528 - Google takes AI propaganda to the movies
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Ignore those strikes over AI in films! Text version: Patreon: Patreon (studio rate): Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: A short film program to explore AI on screen Darren Aronofky’s Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind are partnering to explore AI’s role in storytelling Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Driven Studio Primordial Soup Inks Google DeepMind Partnership, First Film Project to Premiere at Tribeca Festival Inside Google's plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday Google has quietly...
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20250527 - Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture
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How to squeeze your monopoly market. Text version: Patreon: Patreon (enterprise rate): Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: Sources: How Telstra will make Australia pay up for the AI boom Towards a better connected future Telstra expects to shrink workforce as it leans in ‘hard’ on AI — including in customer service Telstra and Accenture Launch Silicon Valley Hub to Rapidly Advance Benefits of AI for Telstra Customers and People Tired of waiting on hold? Telstra thinks this might fix that problem Previously on Pivot...
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Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation (PDF) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17866
Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer https://www.wsj.com/economy/will-ai-help-hurt-workers-income-productivity-5928a389
MIT: Assuring an accurate research record https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record
MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092
“Some initial thoughts. The original paper was too good to be true in many ways.” https://x.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/1923394446562898170
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION: Corning Incorporated v. Aidan Toner-Rodgers (PDF) https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/pdf/2025/d2025-0410.pdf
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Anthropic, Apollo astounded to find a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/19/anthropic-and-apollo-astounded-to-find-that-a-chatbot-will-lie-to-you-if-you-tell-it-to-lie-to-you/