Paul CantrellMay 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116602163994915587

It sounds from the very small amount of information in the article like the problem was that the system was reading the names in the wrong order. That’s most likely a human organization / data wrangling error, not gen AI slop.

If so — big if! speculating!! — this is a textbook example of someone instinctively using AI as an accountability sink. 🧵

Show threadcratermoon
@inthehands every organization I’ve worked with has issues with garbage data. Rarely do they take data consistency and cleanliness seriously. If they don’t have AI to blame they blame the db, or the etl system, or anything other than their own lazy, penny-pinching sloppiness.
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Show threadPaul CantrellMay 19
@cratermoon
Correct. The advantage of gen AI is that it can more fully automate the blame: if it does •everything•, then you can blame it for everything.