Original Reddit post

I think I finally hit my limit with being lazy and letting AI handle my work life without checking the details. Last week I had to prep a quick briefing for my boss about some market trends in a niche industry and I just copy-pasted the output into a slide deck because I was running late. It gave me these incredibly specific numbers about a company that apparently went bankrupt five years ago. I stood there in front of the whole department citing growth stats for a ghost corporation while my manager just stared at me like I had lost my mind. It was the most embarrassing fifteen minutes of my professional life and I realized I had become way too comfortable with these models being right. I am curious to see how much damage this blind trust has done to the rest of you. What is the absolute biggest disaster or mistake you have dealt with because you didn’t double-check what the AI told you? I am talking about the kind of errors that actually cost you money or your reputation or just a lot of dignity. Maybe you followed a technical guide that broke your hardware or you sent an automated email that offended a long-term client. We all know these things hallucinate but I want to hear the specific stories where it actually bit you. submitted by /u/Dimensional-Misfit

Originally posted by u/Dimensional-Misfit on r/ArtificialInteligence