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"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."

"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.
The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."

No shit, sherlock?
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel

(Danke, Mathias!)

Over the weekend, did you see the much-shared story on Reddit by a supposed whistleblower?

It started like this: "I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore."

Well, it was a fake.
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

> While actual AI isn't fit to replace anything or anyone, it does work as an engine of precaritisation and marginalisation, of Uber and algorithmic welfare cuts, It's an apparatus that crudely extracts as much encoded human knowledge as it can in order to provide a shoddy substitute for key social functions like education and healthcare, while further concentrating wealth and power.

https://www.danmcquillan.org/decomputing_as_resistance.html

Edit to add, who is also on Mastodon!
@danmcquillan

Another insightful post by @pluralistic

But I wonder, at what point do billionaire narcissists decide they don’t even need a market if the can crap out a new yacht directly?

"Billionaires love UBI...In the AI UBI fantasy, everyone who’s not a billionaire has been replaced with a chatbot, and our only job is to receive government vouchers that we hand over to billionaire grifters who run the institutions that used to be under democratic control.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-08-18-seeing-like-a-billionaire-npcs-7a7746fe64e8

Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.

Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

The Microsoft four coloured squares logo next to the Microslop name.

If you read ONE THING about and the and its impact on jobs, creators and artists, then read (@pluralistic) 's speech where he calls out the dangers and delusions behind it all.

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-05-pop-that-bubble-u-washington-8b6b75abc28e

"A woman has told the BBC she felt "dehumanised and reduced into a sexual stereotype" after Elon Musk's AI Grok was used to digitally remove her clothing.

The BBC has seen several examples on the social media platform X of people asking the chatbot to undress women to make them appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting them in sexual situations."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98p1r4e6m8o

Given the opportunity, I would, with alacrity, revert to using via a on a -11/780 running #4.3BSD. I dare say there is much good that could be done with that setup—especially in today's age.

It is not that I detest modernity, but that I adore .