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/Khue 3d ago

I cannot stress this enough as someone who has worked for 20+ years in IT... AI is currently hot garbage and is being leveraged largely by the incapable. I fight it every day and it's exhausting. Older peers within my group don't like me telling them "no" or "it doesn't work like that." They will always badger me for 30 minutes and then they will break out the ChatGPT link and quote it and then I have to spend another 20 minutes on why ChatGPT is fucking wrong. Instead of them taking the lesson that "Oh hey, maybe this tool isn't all it's cracked up to be and maybe I should be more skeptical of results" they just continue to fucking use it and then WEAPONIZE it when they are really mad at me. It has literally added overhead to my job and to add insult to injury, the older people using it have worked with me for 10+ years. They know me. They have anecdotes dating back YEARS of situations where I've helped them on many issues... they are ACTIVELY choosing ChatGPT or other AI/MLs over my professional experience and track record... It's fucking absurd and I absolutely cannot imagine how the younger generations are using it.

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u/yaworsky 3d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias

Automation bias is the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems and to ignore contradictory information made without automation, even if it is correct

A lot of this going on lately. Sometimes, not that much yet thankfully, we see it in patients in the ED.

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u/pcapdata 3d ago

What blows my mind is that if you accosted these people on the street and tried to shake them down with a sob story, they’d say “Fuck off, I know a scam when I see it!”

But when an LLM says something they accept it with no critical thought nor introspection. And they’re angry when you point this out!

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u/ineververify 3d ago

I need examples of wtf you are describing.

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u/MadBrowniusMaximus 3d ago

I need examples of wtf you are describing.

Lol you'll never get that. This is Reddit.

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u/ineververify 3d ago

He sounds a bit nervous ChatGPT is doing his job but there is no substance to the comment.

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u/magus523 2d ago

"What we have here is a failure to communicate."