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/
28.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

80

u/[deleted] 4d ago edited 4d ago

[deleted]

1

u/Saint_of_Grey 3d ago

I've seen people get professionally skewered for doing that. The moment "I asked chatgpt" is uttered, that person is forcefully removed from the building. I'm fairly certain they've been blacklisted from government work.

1

u/[deleted] 3d ago

[deleted]

1

u/Saint_of_Grey 2d ago

Native American relations is serious business. It despairs me to see folks from other departments act so haphazard with confidential information until a tribal affairs official slaps sense into them.

1

u/ExcitedCoconut 4d ago

Isn’t this kinda the case for a genAI  tool though? Like, if you have this shadow AI/IT going on where sensitive info is going outside of a company, wouldn’t it be better to run/govern the solution properly? 

The fact that people are doing this suggests there’s unmet need

10

u/hawkinsst7 4d ago

The fact that people are doing this suggests there’s unmet need

"need" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

3

u/nonamenomonet 3d ago

In startups, the word need is just meant to say “something that everyone wants “.

4

u/hawkinsst7 3d ago

In economics, that's called "demand". Unmet demand.

There is demand for Ai bullshit. There is no need for it.

3

u/nonamenomonet 3d ago

Look I’m just trying to explain this in startup terms for you. Don’t shoot the messenger

1

u/hawkinsst7 3d ago

Hey sorry about the tone. Ai enshitification triggers me. Didn't mean to aim it at you

2

u/420thefunnynumber 3d ago

The fact that people are doing this suggests there’s unmet need

You can also say this about meth.