Office workers are spending way too much on AI too
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/25/office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too/]
The AI push runs on setting venture capital money on fire and charging chatbot users way less than the bot costs to serve. The idea is that the customers will get hooked on the business value. Then the AI vendors can gouge them. And the vendors can try not to haemorrhage quite so much cash. […]
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Since all of you know this I'm just going to spoil the last sentence:
"We hope these examples help clarify the inner workings of AI economics. But if you’re still confused, all you really need to know is that everything is totally working and everyone is making a lot of money, and you should just stop asking questions, luddite."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
Encontramos os aplicativos de IA perdidos. E ninguém baixa eles
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/20/encontramos-os-aplicativos-de-ia-perdidos-e-ninguem-baixa-eles/]
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
#AIisGoingGreat #Sitenews #ManualdoUsurio #Portugues #RodrigoGhedin
Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/]
Unreal Engine is a video game engine produced by Epic Games. It’s what Fortnite is written on top of. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is convinced the slop machine is the future. In November, he was claiming the Steam store — Epic’s direct competitor — should stop tagging games using AI, because “AI will be involved […]
We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/]
Last September, programmer Mike Judge asked: if AI’s so good for coding, where are all the little AI apps? Where are the widgets someone just vibed? Where’s all the AI shovelware? He worked out the numbers — and there had been no uptick in apps going to the Apple or Google stores. This year, the […]
Google found liable for defamatory AI overviews
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/15/google-found-liable-for-defamatory-ai-overviews/]
Google’s AI overviews are accurate 91% of the time! Which means 9% of the time, the AI is just making stuff up. [NYT, archive] That’s not good enough when the AI hallucinates that someone’s a crook. Two publishing houses in Munich sued Google for defamation when the AI overview made out they were involved in […]
#AIIsGoingGreat Funny how big-name consultancies who are super bullish on AI keep punching themselves in the dick with AI
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https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f
"On days where everything works well, I can't help but think nothing I do matters, everything is automated and better and faster than I ever will be.”
“But then there are days where everything breaks and I don't understand why and I realize I have no idea what I've been up to anymore.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-employee-quote-ai-confusion-workplace-2026-6
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116701946121942141
#AIIsGoingGreat, saving so much time by not doing any diligence and dulling the minds of the humans who should have.
rsync vira lixo de IA e quebra seus backups
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/05/rsync-vira-lixo-de-ia-e-quebra-seus-backups/]
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
#AIisGoingGreat #Sitenews #ManualdoUsurio #Portugues #RodrigoGhedin
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