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Religious exemption from using the AI at work

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/22/religious-exemption-from-using-the-ai-at-work/

Published: June 22, 2026 20:49

The Pope put out his encyclical about AI in May. But Catholics weren’t first to claim a religious exemption from AI – it was a Unitarian Universalist. [Business Insider] Erin Maus is a software engineer in North Carolina. She works for an large…

Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos: Ultrasonic CT

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/19/midjourney-ai-pivots-to-theranos-ultrasonic-ct/

Published: June 19, 2026 21:59

Midjourney is an AI image generator and copyright violation machine. What’s the weirdest and dumbest business pivot an image generator company could possibly make? Yesterday, Midjourney CEO David Holz announced Midjourney Medical! No, they didn’t call it…

Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/

Published: June 18, 2026 22:36

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…

We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/

Published: June 16, 2026 21:45

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…

Google found liable for defamatory AI overviews

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/15/google-found-liable-for-defamatory-ai-overviews/

Published: June 15, 2026 22:16

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…

Pivot to AI travels through space and time!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/04/pivot-to-ai-travels-through-space-and-time/

Published: June 4, 2026 16:42

We are moving house from London to Glasgow over 10–11 June! Current plan is no Pivot to AI for 4–12 June. I should be back Monday 15 June. You’re on your own until then. Get out there and be rude to a computer today.

rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups/

Published: June 3, 2026 22:11

rsync is a program for copying entire file folders from one computer to another, doing incremental updates if there’s only a few changes. You can keep a continuous backup copy. Rsync is super reliable for this job. Until recently. On 28 May, Jeremiah…

Log into any Instagram by asking Meta’s AI nicely

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/02/log-into-any-instagram-by-asking-metas-ai-nicely/

Published: June 2, 2026 21:04

In March, Meta started using chatbots for customer service — the Meta AI Support Assistant. [Meta] With the Support Assistant, Meta has a new workflow for Instagram account recovery: Work out where the owner of an Instagram you want to get into lives in.…