Pivot to AI

Let's review your mistakes! Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/26/firing-people-for-ai-not-going-so-well/ 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-ai.redbubble.com Sources: Dd A...

Again. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/ai-resorts-to-robot-blackmail-because-anthropic-asked-for-a-story-of-robot-blackmail/ 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-ai.re...

🎶 we're no strangers to love 🎶 Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/24/ai-coding-bot-allows-prompt-injection-with-a-pull-request/ 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-ai.red...

not even a get-rich quick scheme now Text version: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2025/05/24/crime-is-legal-but-the-actual-dollars-arent-showing-up/ 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://pi...

Number go up! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/23/ai-power-and-water-use-is-through-the-roof-and-80-90-is-each-query/ 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-ai.redbubble.com S...

Everything was always 'prompt injection.' Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/22/you-cant-feed-generative-ai-on-bad-data-then-filter-it-for-only-good-data/ 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:...

The downfall of A Guy Instead Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/21/uk-ai-unicorn-builder-ai-is-dead-the-downfall-of-agi-a-guy-instead/ 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-...

the dead GitHub theory Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/20/github-wants-to-spam-open-source-projects-with-ai-slop/ 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-ai.redbubble.com So...

95% right means 5% horribly wrong. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/19/defra-and-natural-england-creates-unusable-peat-map-with-ai/ 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-ai....

Sanctions as a service Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/18/latest-ai-hallucinated-legal-filing-from-ai-vendor-anthropic/ 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/3Q...

If it sounds too good to be true ... Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/ 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-ai.redbub...

AI is the new blockchain. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/16/trump-announces-vaporware-ai-data-centres-in-the-united-arab-emirates/ 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-ai...

Chatbot outsmarts its creator (not so hard) Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/15/even-elon-musk-cant-make-grok-claim-a-white-genocide-in-south-africa/ 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:  ht...

For the good of humanity! Or a portion thereof 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-ai.redbubble.com Sources: 'How come I can't breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphi...

Show me the pull requests. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/ 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-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...