20250611 - ChatGPT goes down, fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide

We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/chatgpt-goes-down-and-fake-jobs-grind-to-a-halt-worldwide/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: OpenAI: Elevated error rates https://status.openai.com/incidents/01JXCAW3K3JAE0EP56AEZ7CBG3 ChatGPT went down. If that stopped your team cold, that's the real problem https://www.thedrum.com/news/2025/06/10/chatgpt-went-down-if-stopped-your-team-cold-s-the-real-problem OpenAI Is A Bad Business (2024) https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/ DeepSeek claims 'theoretical' profit margins of 545% https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/01/deepseek-claims-theoretical-profit-margins-of-545/ Previously on Pivot to AI: Microsoft's Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/10/microsofts-copilot-studio-ai-leaks-your-business-info-internally-and-externally/ Don't use AI to summarize documents — it's worse than humans in every way https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/dont-use-ai-to-summarize-documents-its-worse-than-humans-in-every-way/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA