Pivot to AI

Now try to claim a payout. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/12/lloyds-offers-corporate-insurance-against-ai-chatbot-errors-now-try-to-get-a-payout/ Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Patreon (corporate rate):  https://www.patreon.com/checkout/davidgerard?rid=6951364 Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things:  https://www.amaz...

But it totally hasn't yet, honest! Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/11/soundcloud-claims-the-right-to-train-ai-on-your-uploaded-music-but-swears-it-hasnt-yet-honest/ Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot...

And hiring managers too. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/10/your-coworkers-hate-you-for-using-ai-at-work/ Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt:  https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Source: PNAS:...

what do you mean I can't get something for nothing Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/09/shocked-to-hear-prompt-engineer-is-not-a-real-job/ Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt:  https://pivot-t...

What this means for the rest of us. Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt:  https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Inciden...

If you build it, they will not, in fact, come. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/07/ai-computers-arent-selling-because-users-dont-care/ Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5Buy me nice things:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt:  https://pivot-to-a...

Elon Musk doesn't buy it. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/06/openai-tries-a-new-scheme-to-go-for-profit-but-elon-musk-isnt-convinced/ Please send money! It's very helpful! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt:  https://pivot-to-a...

The Data Act goes to Parliament this week. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/05/uk-backtracks-on-ai-opt-out-scheme-for-creative-works/ Sources: Why are creatives fighting UK government AI proposals on copyright? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/25/why-are-creatives-fighting-uk-government-ai-proposals-on-copyright Ministers to amend data bill amid artists' concerns over A...

"AI-first means customers last" Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/ Sources: "Below is an all-hands email from our CEO, Luis von Ahn – we are going to be AI-first." https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7322560534824865792/ Game of Tongues: How Duolingo Built A $700 Million Business With Its Addictive Languag...

A bubble in guillotines. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/ Sources: PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor https://nvca.org/pitchbook-nvca-venture-monitor/ I never thought leopards would eat MY face https://twitter.com/Cavalorn/status/654934442549620736 Federal Funds Effective Rate (FEDFUNDS)  https://fred.stlouisfed.org/seri...

The FT fails to check the filings Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/02/no-microsoft-did-not-state-strong-ai-demand-in-q1-2025-the-ft-is-wrong/ Sources: Microsoft shares jump after strong AI demand lifts cloud unit https://www.ft.com/content/9443ca4b-09c1-4f21-ba71-3953b3e0a714 Form 10-Q For the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2025  https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000095...

Why don't we just use this handy Torment Nexus? Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/01/seattle-worldcon-science-fiction-convention-vets-panelists-with-chatgpt/ Sources: Statement From Worldcon Chair  https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/ Responding to Controversy, Seattle Worldcon Defends Using ChatGPT to Vet Program Participants  https://seattlein2025.org...

Better get a lawyer, son. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/30/doctors-personally-liable-if-mandatory-nhs-ai-transcriber-gets-it-wrong/ Sources: Accurx and Tandem Health roll out AI scribing tool across the NHS https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/04/accurx-and-tandem-health-partner-to-roll-out-ai-scribing-in-the-nhs/ Guidance on the use of AI-enabled ambient scribing products in health...

What would you say you do here? Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/29/generative-ai-no-significant-impact-on-earnings-or-recorded-hours-in-any-occupation/ Sources: Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933 Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29...

That's the trouble with saying your company has principles. Outside broadcast today, live from my back yard in the suburbs of London! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/28/googles-military-ai-deals-get-deepmind-uk-staff-to-start-unionising/ Sources: Our AI Principles https://ai.google/responsibility/principles/ Responsible AI: Our 2024 report and ongoing work https://blog.google/technol...

Everything hooks to everything else. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/27/trump-tariffs-taking-out-ai-data-centres-too/ AI boom under threat from tariffs, global economic turmoil https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-boom-under-threat-tariffs-global-economic-turmoil-2025-04-23/ US tariffs: Impact on data centre construction https://www.verdict.co.uk/us-tariffs-d...

An 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...

Meet Thy from Radio CADA, who doesn't exist. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/25/fake-diversity-why-hire-a-non-white-dj-when-you-could-just-generate-one-with-ai/ Sources: 'Tokenistic and backwards': Backlash over ARN's use of AI radio host modelled on Asian woman  https://www.mediaweek.com.au/backlash-over-arn-use-of-ai-radio-host-modelled-on-asian-woman/ CADA's announcer, Thy, is ju...

The State Bar of California cheaps out. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/24/california-bar-exam-a-technical-disaster-with-ai-written-nonsense-questions/ Sources: 'Utterly Botched': Glitchy rollout of new California bar exam prompts lawsuit and legislative review https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-28/utterly-botched-chaotic-roll-out-of-new-california-bar-exam Analytical W...

Let's spend imaginary money! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/23/openai-offers-to-buy-the-chrome-web-browser-from-google-uh-huh/ Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/google-loses-doj-antitrust-suit-over-search Justice Department Seeks Google Chrome Sale to Curb Monopoly https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...

AI: onward and upward! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/22/amazon-also-slows-down-its-data-centre-commitments/ Amazon slides as Wells Fargo says company pausing some data center leases https://seekingalpha.com/news/4432925-amazon-slides-as-wells-fargo-says-company-pausing-some-data-center-leases Amazon has halted some data center leasing talks, Wells Fargo analysts say https://www.reu...

This will totally stop DeepSeek. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/21/openai-starts-verifying-corporate-customers-sometimes-the-id-system-works/ Sources: OpenAI: API Organization Verification  https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organization-verification "I don't have physical documents because in Poland we have something like mCitizen and ID on my phone, same with my driv...

'to improve Apple products and services' Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/20/if-you-report-a-bug-apple-reserves-the-right-to-train-apple-intelligence-on-your-private-developer-logs/ Sources: Joachim Kurz: "Are you f* kidding me, Apple?!" https://hachyderm.io/@cocoafrog/114355281286615868 Joachim Kurz: "I've sadly seen people treat bug reports that way."  https://hachyderm.io/@cocoafr...

'Are you real? Is your work real?' Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/19/ai-bot-scammers-flood-california-community-colleges/ Sources: As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond https://voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/as-bot-students-continue-to-flood-in-community-colleges-struggle-to-respond/ Fake student aid: California colleges detect more fraudste...

The chatbot is definitely trying to kill you, maybe. Send us money. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/18/reasoning-ai-is-lying-to-you-or-maybe-its-just-hallucinating-again/ Sources: Anthropic: Reasoning models don't always say what they think  https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think paper (PDF)  https://assets.anthropic.com/m/71876fabef0f0ed4/original/reason...