{"id":227093,"date":"2025-10-26T21:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227093\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:10:22","slug":"ai-pullback-has-officially-started-by-will-lockett-oct-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227093\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Pullback Has Officially Started | by Will Lockett | Oct, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press enter or click to view image in full size<img alt=\"\" class=\"bi hs ht c\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" loading=\"eager\" role=\"presentation\"\/>Photo by <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@boliviainteligente?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BoliviaInteligente<\/a> on <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a>People are beginning to confront the reality of AI, and they are not happy.<a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wlockett.medium.com\/?source=post_page---byline--fb6dfa5e4128---------------------------------------\" data-discover=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Lockett\" class=\"m fk by bz ca de\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1*V0qWMQ8V5_NaF9yUoHAdyg.jpeg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"authorPhoto\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"242f\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nv nw ie nx b iy ny nz oa jb ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq he bl\">The gulf between actual AI performance and AI hype is deep and cavernous, and we have the data to prove it. A recent <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/08\/18\/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MIT report<\/a> found that 95% of AI pilots didn\u2019t increase a company\u2019s profit or productivity. A recent <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/metr.org\/blog\/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study\/#:~:text=Core%20Result,evidence%20for%20in%20Table%202.\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">METR report<\/a> also found that AI coding tools actually slow developers down. Why? Well, generative AI models, even the very latest ones, often get things wrong and \u201challucinate\u201d, which requires considerable human oversight to correct. IT consultants <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/06\/29\/ai_agents_fail_a_lot\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gartner<\/a> attempted to quantify this and found that AI agents fail to complete office tasks around 70% of the time. Simply put, the amount of human oversight necessary, even for simple tasks, almost always undermines whatever productivity gains are made. In other words, in the vast majority of cases, it is more productive not to use AI than to use AI. Yet despite all the evidence, AI is still being shoehorned in everywhere and being praised as the next industrial revolution. Or is it? Because there is also mounting data that the world is beginning to turn its back on this questionable technology.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6946\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nv nw ie nx b iy ny nz oa jb ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq he bl\">Possibly the best example of this is a new report from <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/content\/wiley-com\/na\/us\/en\/about-us\/ai-resources\/ai-study.html\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wiley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4e14\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nv nw ie nx b iy ny nz oa jb ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op oq he bl\">This is their second ExplanAItions study, which aims to assess how AI is being used and perceived in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press enter or click to view image in full sizePhoto by BoliviaInteligente on UnsplashPeople are beginning to confront&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-227093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}