#AIIsGoingGreat "The benefits of using AI in the workplace are not always obvious. According to employees, the most common AI adoption challenge is “unclear use case or value proposition.” Even among those who report using AI, only 16% strongly agree that the AI tools provided by their organization are useful for their work" https://www.gallup.com/workplace/691643/work-nearly-doubled-two-years.aspx
#AIIsGoingGreat
Amazon discovers AI sucks at automated TV recaps
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/16/amazon-discovers-ai-sucks-at-automated-tv-recaps/]
Amazon Prime Video adapted the Fallout video game series for TV. The first season did well with both gamers and non-gamers, and the second season starts tomorrow! But you might not remember the show you watched and loved. So on 19 November, Amazon announced a fabulous new initiative: [Amazon, archive] Video Recaps use AI to […]
#AIIsGoingGreat, getting high on your own supply edition
"… and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group" https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/
It's not often that my loathing for generative AI and the propaganda outlet The Washington Post are combined with my beloved #podcasting, but here we are!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-ai-generated-podcasts-internal-tests
Ditch #WaPo. Decry #AISlop. Defend real #journalism.
Kudos for @Podnews for the link.
WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/15/wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world/]
What if we put AI slop into half the websites on the internet? WordPress is software to set up a website. It’s open source, it’s pretty easy to use, so it took over just by being more OK than everything else — to the point where nearly half of all the websites in the world […]
Bonus #AIIsGoingGreat makes all those billions in capex worth it
#AIIsGoingGreat "Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment"
Today's #AIIsGoingGreat "Inasmuch as you are going to have to double-check every “fact” that “AI”” provides to you, why not eliminate the middleman and just not use “AI”? It’s not decreasing your workload here, it’s adding to it"
Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/10/department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot/]
I got a tip yesterday from an anonymous US army officer that the US government was about to break new ground in authoritarian dumbassery. The officer had logged into his work computer in the morning, and got a popup: GenAI.mil. Victory belongs to those who embrace real innovation, not the antiquated systems of a bygone […]
Microsoft cuts AI sales quotas, stock drops 3%
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/09/microsoft-cuts-ai-sales-quotas-stock-drops-3/]
Microsoft loves its AI, and wants you to love it too! But it had to lower sales quotas for AI agent software Foundry — because so many of its salespeople missed their quota for Q2 2025: [Information, paywalled; Ars Technica; Reuters] Less than a fifth of salespeople in that unit met their Foundry sales growth […]
Today's #AIIsGoingGreat, courtesy of the UK NCSC: "SQL injection can be properly mitigated with parameterised queries, but there's a good chance prompt injection will never be properly mitigated in the same way. The best we can hope for is reducing the likelihood or impact of attacks" - Will this affect the market's willingness to throw more billions on the #LLM bonfire? Probably not, but only time will tell
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/prompt-injection-is-not-sql-injection
Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/03/googles-antigravity-ai-vibe-coder-wipes-your-hard-disk/]
Say you’re just someone who does stuff and it’s on the computer. Wouldn’t it be good if you could automate some of the stuff? Sounds useful! You do some web design, but you’re not much of a coder. But you’ve heard AI is the best thing ever! All the news sites are telling you how […]
Soo... my wife's company just forced an external consultant to refund his billed hours because he believed ChatGPT's "answer" to a problem and couldn't be arsed to check for himself before wasting the better part of a month going in the wrong direction.
#aiisgoinggreat
Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/02/lawyers-find-more-work-cleaning-up-after-ai-bots/]
The Australian Financial Review runs a regular Law Partnership Survey. Lawyers who are partners in the firms are up about 3% — but the number of non-partner lawyers, paid on a fee basis to churn through stuff, is up 5% on average, and 15% at some firms. [AFR] This is because the firms need proper […]
AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work/]
Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lying chatbots. These are near actual towns with people, and people object to things like noise, rising […]
Bonus #AIIsGoingGreat - With the power of #AI, I predict that by 2026 there will be at least 30 "r"s in "year"
(I did this a second time in a new private window because I realized after I closed the first one I should see what the supposedly supporting link was…)
edit: one more for old times sake
#AIIsGoingGreat. See replies in thread for more greatness. Apologists will say stuff like "that's a silly question, just look at the calendar on your phone, no one uses google for that" but I'm sorry, if you dumped a few hundred billion dollars into this magic answer machine and you can't get it to stop doing stupid shit like this, I'm gonna be a *little* skeptical that it's ready to run health care, solve climate change and revolutionize science
In today's #AIIsGoingGreat (ht @GossiTheDog*) the Economist brings us this chart of Goldman Sachs index of companies with the "largest estimated potential change to baseline earnings from AI adoption via increased productivity" vs the S&P500
* https://mastodon.social/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social/115638306307720246
![A chart from the linked artitcle, titled "Uncertain glory" labeled
"US, stockmarket indices[1], January 3rd 2023=100" showing the relative performance of "Al beneficiaries [2]" vs S&P500 from 2023 to present. Both track quite closely until a few months into 2025, when the "AI beneficiaries" diverge significantly lower, ending ~115 while S&P ends around 130
Footnotes:
1 Equally weighted
2 Companies expected to benefit most from adoption
Source: Goldman Sachs
CHART: THE ECONOMIST](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/643/326/597/327/261/original/cf78ef896e5aadec.png)
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