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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 18:21:50 JST tante

   The most confusing thing about the AI push is that we just accepted that this fancy new tech is so bad that every product comes with a "everything this thing generates might be wrong and it is upon you to check". Bad products that externalize all the risks and problems to the user. And we just accept that. Because "Innovation".

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 00:29:41 JST simsa03

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     Not because of "innovation" but because of cost sharing: Make the customer the unpaid employee of your company. It's pretty common in finance, banking, retail, etc.
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     Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 06:57:32 JST Charlie Balogh

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     @tante There's been a steady downwards trend of software quality, driven by piling up complexity, unfixed bugs, lack of proper error handling, and non-AI based heuristics in software being just constantly wrong. Which obfuscates the fundamental problem with AI, especially for non-techies.

     To them, it's just yet another case of "autocorrect being wrong on my phone", or "I had to restart Chrome again". They're used to their devices doing unexpected things, so what. AI makes little difference.

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     Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:01:24 JST Andreas K

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     • Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC

     @tante
     Literally illegal under the product liability directive just passed in the EU.

     Literally raises the bar on legally implied warranty on software. And they removed the maximum damage sum. So in theory of your software causes billions in damages you are liable.
     @LordCaramac

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