Pivot to AI

Pivot to AI

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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December 1, 2025 9 mins

Science fiction is fiction

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work/ - text

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Just as Call of Duty's AI slop causes refunds

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/27/epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures/ - text

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November 26, 2025 7 mins

The real customer: scaremongering security vendors

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/26/ai-for-evil-hacked-by-wormgpt/ - text

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AI agents running nuclear experiments? It'll be fine

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/25/white-house-the-us-will-fabricate-science-with-chatbots/ - text

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and you thought Windows was supposed to run software

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'GenAI for Nuclear Licensing'

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/18/vibe-nuclear-lets-use-ai-shortcuts-on-reactor-safety/ - text

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making AI haters seem very cool and effective

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working/ - text

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Be VERY SCARED, okay?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/14/anthropic-chinese-ai-hackers-are-after-you-security-researchers-call-bs/ - text

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    the market for AI bands is gullible journalists

    https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/13/no-fake-ai-music-bought-onto-a-minor-chart-is-not-actually-popular/ - text

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    yo ho ho, rum, etc

    https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/12/gema-wins-against-openai-on-copying-song-lyrics/ - text

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    Getty insists this is a win, actually

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    let's dump 24% in an hour!

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    The edge is where it's at

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    An interview with Dr Nicholas Weaver, author of this guest post on the Pivot to AI blog:

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    How could all these benchmarks be fake, it's a mystery

    https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/06/oxford-pretends-ai-benchmarks-are-science-not-marketing/ - text

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    no plans to fix it, though

    https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/ai-gets-45-of-news-wrong-but-readers-still-trust-it/ - text

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    the best ad Pepsi never paid for

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    The finest academic papers money can buy

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