David Gerard

Pivot to AI

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The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.

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David Gerard

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20250619 - Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI, volunteers quit in outrage 19.06.2025 5:40

what's a bit of blood money, eh Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: H...

20250618 - Salesforce: AI agents don't work, but we're charging 6% more for AI anyway 18.06.2025 3:38

where you gonna go? SAP? Yeah, didn't think so Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/18/salesforce-ai-agents-dont-work-but-were-charging-6-more-for-ai-anyway/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Patreon (enterprise): https://www.patreon.com/checkout/davidgerard?rid=6951364 Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Ge...

20250617 - OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal. So it's threatening Microsoft! 17.06.2025 3:59

also, vibe coding Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/17/openai-needs-its-40-billion-funding-deal-so-its-threatening-microsoft/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Source: OpenAI and Microsoft...

20250616 - Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid 16.06.2025 4:05

'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels' Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/bad-brainwaves-chatgpt-makes-you-stupid/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com S...

20250615 - EchoLeak: send an email, extract secret info from Office 365 Copilot AI 15.06.2025 5:18

Everything is prompt injection Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/15/echoleak-send-an-email-extract-secret-info-from-microsoft-office-365-copilot-ai/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sour...

20250614 - Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed 14.06.2025 5:38

Warn your relatives! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/14/meta-ai-posts-your-personal-chats-to-a-public-feed/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: "Wild things are happening on Met...

20250613 - Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data 13.06.2025 4:00

AI is the new Metaverse Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/13/meta-buys-into-scale-ai-in-the-quest-for-fresh-data/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: Meta's Scale AI stake buyout...

20250612 - Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney 12.06.2025 4:12

🎶 let it go, let it go 🎶 Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/12/disney-sues-ai-image-generator-midjourney/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: Complaint (PDF) https://storage.cou...

20250611 - ChatGPT goes down, fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide 11.06.2025 5:02

We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/chatgpt-goes-down-and-fake-jobs-grind-to-a-halt-worldwide/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: Op...

20250610 - Doctors against data abuse: BMA and RCGP protest NHS AI data handover 10.06.2025 3:38

'new, contentious, and potentially with wide repercussions' Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/10/doctors-against-data-abuse-bma-and-rcgp-protest-nhs-ai-data-handover/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-a...

20250609 - Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don't expect much - it still doesn't work 09.06.2025 4:05

no Apple, all worm Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/09/apple-intelligence-at-wwdc-2025-dont-expect-much-it-still-doesnt-work/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: Apple's Artifi...

20250608 - 'Reasoning' AIs fail hard if they actually have to think 08.06.2025 5:12

Anything outside their training. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/08/apple-reasoning-ais-fail-hard-if-they-actually-have-to-think/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: The Illusi...

20250607 - UK - High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else 07.06.2025 5:07

Penalties up to criminal prosecution. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/07/uk-high-court-to-lawyers-cut-the-chatgpt-or-else/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: FREDERICK AYINDE...

20250606 - Builder․ai even more fake: creative accounting, no AI, no money 06.06.2025 5:05

Hey. I'm Natasha, your AI companion. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/06/builder-ai-even-more-fake-creative-accounting-no-ai-no-money/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: Volunt...

20250605 - Generative AI runs on gambling addiction: just one more prompt, bro! 05.06.2025 7:04

Vibe coding and chatbot girlfriends Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources:...

20250604 - Washington Post is going to AI to clean up amateur right-wing op-eds 04.06.2025 4:03

Surely there are more subscribers to lose Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/04/washington-post-goes-ai-to-clean-up-amateur-right-wing-op-eds/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources...

20250603 - Let's put more AI slop into advertising! 03.06.2025 4:52

Brought to you by Facebook and Veo. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/03/lets-put-more-ai-slop-into-advertising/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: Meta Aims to Fully Automate...

20250602 - Fighting the AI scraper bots 02.06.2025 7:20

We are lucky they are so very stupid. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: 1 M...

20250601 - Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says: AI will fix it! 01.06.2025 3:36

it was Google wot done it Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/01/business-insider-layoffs-as-traffic-drops-but-publisher-axel-springer-says-ai-will-fix-it/ 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 or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble...

20250531 - Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millions 31.05.2025 4:32

But we'll make it up in volume Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/31/microsoft-and-ai-spending-billions-to-make-millions/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Patreon (enterprise rate): https://www.patreon.com/checkout/davidgerard?rid=6951364 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 t...

20250530 - The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot 30.05.2025 4:16

sure, Pete Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/30/the-uk-will-totally-replace-two-thirds-of-junior-civil-servants-with-ai-chatbots-says-the-chatbot/ 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-ai.redbubble.com Sources:...

20250529 - Game studios love AI! The gamers ... hate it 29.05.2025 4:39

What do you want them to do? Pay artists? Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/29/game-studios-love-ai-the-gamers-hate-it/ 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-ai.redbubble.com Sources: 'An Overwhelmingly Negative...

20250528 - Google takes AI propaganda to the movies 28.05.2025 4:30

Ignore those strikes over AI in films! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/28/google-takes-ai-propaganda-to-the-movies/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Patreon (studio rate): https://www.patreon.com/checkout/davidgerard?rid=6951364 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...

20250527 - Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture 27.05.2025 3:38

How to squeeze your monopoly market. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/27/telstra-embraces-ai-with-accenture/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Patreon (enterprise rate): https://www.patreon.com/checkout/davidgerard?rid=6951364 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...

20250526 - BONUS: Donation drive! Please send money! 26.05.2025 2:37

Brother, can you spare all your data? Or a dime, that's good too 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.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt: https://pivot-to-...