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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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The 10+% of the time it's wrong you can't blame it, sue it, imprison it, or apply leins against it if it causes real world damages to people or the company that operates it
"For entertainment purposes only" is still the level of liability AI companies operate at. Air Canada just had a ruling that anything their bot says is the speech of Air Canada and they're bound by it. So far there's always ways to prompt inject, and you sometimes don't even need to do that. Just guiding the conversation in ways that are difficult to pin malice on to is enough.
That's great, i agree that makes sense!