"This means a staggering 96.7% of users are rejecting the premium AI features, yielding just a 3.3% paid adoption rate. When viewed against Microsoft’s estimated $37.5 billion quarterly AI spending, this is an alarmingly low adoption rate."
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May 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
"This means a staggering 96.7% of users are rejecting the premium AI features, yielding just a 3.3% paid adoption rate. When viewed against Microsoft’s estimated $37.5 billion quarterly AI spending, this is an alarmingly low adoption rate."
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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:46 PM
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Don’t shoot the messenger but you can see this same effect with eager AI adoption.
Selling young men who feel like they’re not masculine enough on the idea that they’ll be basically samurai or cowboys or whatever if they put their money in a speculative financial asset that’ll surely make them rich and tough and desirable sounds like such a classic scam holy cow.
Finally read that WSJ article from last week and this confirms everything I suspected.
December 22, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Don’t shoot the messenger but you can see this same effect with eager AI adoption.
Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion."
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion."
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
giftarticle.ft.com
June 12, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars.
AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
June 28, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars.
AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
The short version of AI adoption driven by CEOs and executives:
August 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The short version of AI adoption driven by CEOs and executives:
this shit makes actual AI adoption so much harder
people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
June 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
this shit makes actual AI adoption so much harder
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Maybe AI is really a virus that spreads by making its host talk about how inevitable AI adoption is.
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Maybe AI is really a virus that spreads by making its host talk about how inevitable AI adoption is.
We should essentially always be including the exploitation of workers in the global south in our arguments against Gen AI adoption in our media industries
November 30, 2024 at 3:30 AM
We should essentially always be including the exploitation of workers in the global south in our arguments against Gen AI adoption in our media industries
My subscription to Google Drive now lists on the receipt as a subscription to Google AI Plus.
This is exactly how they're juicing the numbers for AI adoption for shareholders. Sleight-of-hand bullshit.
This is exactly how they're juicing the numbers for AI adoption for shareholders. Sleight-of-hand bullshit.
September 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
My subscription to Google Drive now lists on the receipt as a subscription to Google AI Plus.
This is exactly how they're juicing the numbers for AI adoption for shareholders. Sleight-of-hand bullshit.
This is exactly how they're juicing the numbers for AI adoption for shareholders. Sleight-of-hand bullshit.
Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars
Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...
www.wheresyoured.at
February 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
now that sora is being shut down i’ve never been so sure that the ai fruit love island type of content is bot created and gives money to people by ai companies to post about it. unless this shit gets mass adoption and becomes profitable, generative ai is destined to be shut down
March 24, 2026 at 10:15 PM
now that sora is being shut down i’ve never been so sure that the ai fruit love island type of content is bot created and gives money to people by ai companies to post about it. unless this shit gets mass adoption and becomes profitable, generative ai is destined to be shut down
AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.
September 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.
waow no way www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-...?
AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out - Apollo Academy
Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm...
www.apolloacademy.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
waow no way www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-...?
“efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal, indicating that maintaining an aura of magic around AI could be beneficial for adoption.”
Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
January 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal, indicating that maintaining an aura of magic around AI could be beneficial for adoption.”
Proposing the adoption of “shart” to refer to AI-generated “art.”
November 14, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Proposing the adoption of “shart” to refer to AI-generated “art.”
businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back
public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird
mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY
public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird
mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY
Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News
A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...
www.cbc.ca
June 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back
public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird
mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY
public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird
mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY
‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 AM
‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not
August 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not
I like how every study that tries to prove AI is being adopted at scale is like “jobs that AI might be able to do a small amount of are sort of affected” and every other study on AI use is “adoption is low” and “it doesn’t really work reliably or in a way with measurable outcomes”
March 29, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I like how every study that tries to prove AI is being adopted at scale is like “jobs that AI might be able to do a small amount of are sort of affected” and every other study on AI use is “adoption is low” and “it doesn’t really work reliably or in a way with measurable outcomes”
BofA: AI adoption rates by corporate customers are slowing
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BofA: AI adoption rates by corporate customers are slowing