Running #aifails list documents AI's quiet failures to counter cherry-picked demos
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-04
The author is maintaining a running #aifails thread collecting documented AI failures as a counterweight to cherry-picked success demos:
- Why: demos travel, quiet endings don't — cancelled pilots, retired products, agents failing loudly, popular complaints.
- Ground rules: documented misses only, not a dunk thread; no unsupported complaints.
- Recurring pattern: one pattern, many costumes — a sampler sold as an employee, a trace sold as thought, a guess sold as fact.
- Submissions accepted via DM, hashtag, or reply; the list keeps growing.
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