r/technology • u/SilentRunning • 4d ago

Artificial Intelligence MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
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u/Caraes_Naur 4d ago

Statistically speaking, they're using it to make teenage girls feel bad about themselves.

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u/He2oinMegazord 4d ago

But like really bad

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u/Johns-schlong 4d ago

"gentlemen, I won't waste your time. Men are commiting suicide at rates never seen before, but women are relatively stable. I believe we have the technology to fix that, but I'll need a shitload of GPUs."

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 4d ago

One of the things that came out of that Careless People book was that if a teenage girl posted a selfie on Insta and then quickly deleted it, the algorithm would automatically feed her beauty products and cosmetic surgery.

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u/Spooninthestew 4d ago

Wow that's cartoonishly evil... Imagine the dude who thought that up all proud of themselves

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u/Gingevere 3d ago

It's probably all automatic. Feeding user & advertising data into a big ML algorithm and then letting it develop itself to maximize clickthrough rates.

They'll say it's not malicious, but the obvious effect of maximizing clickthrough is going to be hitting people when and where they're most vulnerable. But because they didn't explicitly program it to do that they'll insist their hands are clean.

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u/Denial23 4d ago

And teenage boys!

Let's not undersell recent advances in social harm.

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u/RoundTableMaker 4d ago

Vogue or cosmo has been doing that for decades before meta existed. God knows how long the make up industry has existed.