Anything outside their training.

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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity (PDF) https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens As Reasoning/Thinking Traces! (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09762

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LLMs can solve any word problem! As long as they can crib the answer https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/06/llms-can-solve-any-word-problem-as-long-as-they-can-crib-the-answer/

AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/25/ai-benchmarks-are-self-promoting-trash-but-regulators-keep-using-them/

‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating again https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/18/reasoning-ai-is-lying-to-you-or-maybe-its-just-hallucinating-again/

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Penalties up to criminal prosecution.

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FREDERICK AYINDE Claimant and THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARINGEY Defendant: Approved Judgement (PDF) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/1040.pdf

The use of artificial intelligence in courts: a warning https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69890/artificial-intelligence-in-courts-a-warning

High Court considers initiating contempt of court proceedings against lawyers over fake citation cases https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrister-did-not-appreciate-seriousness-of-fake-citations-high-court-hears/5123387.article

Approved Judgement https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/1383.html

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Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/18/latest-ai-hallucinated-legal-filing-from-ai-vendor-anthropic/

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Hey. I’m Natasha, your AI companion.

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Voluntary Petition for Non-Individuals Filing for Bankruptcy (PDF) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.197187/gov.uscourts.deb.197187.1.0.pdf

How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI tool https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-billion-dollar-london-startup-backed-by-microsoft-made-700-engineers-sitting-in-india-pose-as-ai/articleshow/121572659.cms

Fake it till you unicorn? Builder.ai’s Natasha was never AI – just 700 Indian coders behind the curtain https://techfundingnews.com/fake-it-till-you-unicorn-builder-ais-natasha-was-never-ai-just-700-indian-coders-behind-the-curtain/

Inside the collapse of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai https://www.ft.com/content/67f0277a-10fd-463c-8946-af0be2b4028f

US Prosecutors Sought Builder.ai Data After Sales Overstated https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-26/us-prosecutors-sought-builder-ai-data-after-sales-overstated

Builder.ai owes money to corporate spies and defamation lawyers https://www.ft.com/content/ef37280d-2fe5-4512-8455-dc8724fd1521

Builder.ai Faked Business With Indian Firm VerSe to Inflate Sales, Sources Say https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/builder-ai-faked-business-with-indian-firm-verse-to-inflate-sales-sources-say

Hey. I’m Natasha, your AI companion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36ZmJRYGK8

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UK AI unicorn Builder․ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/21/uk-ai-unicorn-builder-ai-is-dead-the-downfall-of-agi-a-guy-instead/

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Vibe coding and chatbot girlfriends

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AI-first - We're just 6 months away from AGI ;-) https://revontulet.dev/p/2025-ai-first/

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/how-much-of-ais-recent-success-is-due-to-the-forer-effect/

Is GenAI Digital Cocaine? https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/is-genai-digital-cocaine

“try replacing ‘ai’ with ‘cocaine’ in all the posts you read about it. it's pretty funny” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/natalieponte_try-replacing-ai-with-cocaine-in-all-activity-7336023313137229824-APP0/

Hooked by Nir Eyal: https://amzn.to/43JdtlG (UK), https://amzn.to/4dPIA3x (US)

Wikipedia: Barnum effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

More cribs from Stephen Farrugia in this episode, go watch his videos https://www.youtube.com/@fasterandworse

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Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/

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Surely there are more subscribers to lose

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The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washington-post-new-mission.html

The Washington Post Plans an Influx of Outside Opinion Writers https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/business/media/washington-post-opinion-ripple.html

Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312819/washington-post-bezos-subscriptions-cancellations

Embattled WaPo Publisher Met With Conservative Editor for Advice on Recruiting More Right-Wingers https://www.mediaite.com/media/embattled-wapo-publisher-met-with-conservative-editor-for-advice-on-recruiting-more-right-wingers/

Despite Bezos’ Efforts to Shove WaPo Opinion to the Right, Op-Eds Still Taking Defiantly Anti-Trump, Anti-Musk Tone https://www.mediaite.com/analysis/despite-bezos-efforts-to-shove-wapo-opinion-to-the-right-op-eds-still-taking-defiantly-anti-trump-anti-musk-tone/

The Contrarian https://contrarian.substack.com/

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Newspaper AI roundup: Guardian AI strike-breaking, Apple switches off bad summaries, WaPo wants to go AI, AFP, Axios https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/19/newspaper-ai-roundup-guardian-ai-strike-breaking-apple-switches-off-bad-summaries-wapo-wants-to-go-ai-afp-axios/

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Brought to you by Facebook and Veo.

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Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-fully-automate-ad-creation-using-ai-7d82e249

Mark Zuckerberg says people can fill the need for friends with AI, but ‘there is no replacement’ for human relationships, psychologist says https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/mark-zuckerberg-says-ai-can-replace-human-relationshipsexpert-disagrees.html

Google Veo 3: Creative thinkers must adapt to avoid disruption https://www.adnews.com.au/news/google-veo-3-creative-thinkers-must-adapt-to-avoid-disruption

Consumers wary of AI-generated marketing content, AI-driven ad targeting https://www.emarketer.com/content/consumers-wary-of-ai-generated-marketing-content--ai-driven-ad-targeting

Campaign Tech Awards https://www.campaigntechawards.com/

Special thanks to Steve Farrugia, who gave me a pile of the ideas in this episode

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Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/17/coca-colas-new-ai-generated-christmas-ad-is-as-bad-as-youd-expect/

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We are lucky they are so very stupid.

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1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers https://www.wired.com/story/1-million-third-party-android-devices-badbox-2/

jwz's Blog: https://www.jwz.org/blog/

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What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/02/what-the-floods-of-ai-scraper-bots-look-like-in-2025/

That RationalWiki configuration fragment:

set $BOT "";
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set $BOT "C"; }

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it was Google wot done it

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Business Insider layoff memo: https://x.com/sarafischer/status/1928063856464511208

rchive: https://archive.is/scdjd

Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it’s now 2024 https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/google-fixes-bug-that-led-ai-overviews-to-say-its-now-2024/

Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI https://www.wired.com/story/politico-workers-axel-springer-artificial-intelligence/

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Google’s AI Overview directly takes readers away from its own source sites https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/26/googles-ai-overview-directly-takes-readers-away-from-its-own-source-sites/

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