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These AI-focused Twitter threads feel like they’re just recycling the same talking points for likes and retweets. When AI systems make mistakes, it doesn’t make sense to assign blame the way we would with human errors - they’re tools operating within their programming constraints, not autonomous agents making conscious choices.

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> When AI systems make mistakes, it doesn’t make sense to assign blame the way we would with human errors - they’re tools operating within their programming constraints, not autonomous agents making conscious choices.

It's not really "assigning blame", it's more like "acknowledging limitations of the tools."

Giving an LLM or "agent" access to your production servers or database is unwise, to say the least.

In this thread the person does literally assign blame, accuses the AI of lying, and makes it write an apology letter to the team as though it's a child that needs to be chastised.

I think at this point it is like rage-baiting. “AI wiped out my database”, “AI leaked my credentials”, “AI spent 2 million dollars on AWS” etc create interaction for these people.

The message reads like "AI did this bad thing" but we should all see it as "Another stupid person believed the AI hype and discovered it isn't trustworth" or whatever. You usually don't see them admit "gee that was dumb. What was I thinking?"

Because that would mean they were wrong and their faith was misplaced. Faith is a good word to use in this case, because people like this are AI evangelists, going beyond selling it as "it is good because objective reasons 1, 2 and 3", into "this will revolutionize the world and how you think". They will overhype it and make excuses or talk around its flaws. Some of them are true believers, but I'm convinced most are just trying to sell a product or themselves.

the author is an ai booster

he's not going to be happy with all this publicity

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