Is generative drift a fundamental flaw in AI? Reddit debates agent reliability
Peacefulhuman1009 · reddit · 2026-11-07
A Reddit thread examines generative drift: asking AI to recreate an image exactly 50 times, feeding each output back, can yield something completely different by the end. The poster scales this to agents making decisions on other agents' outputs, where one small error gets treated as fact and derails the whole process.
Core question: can probabilistic AI systems ever be truly reliable without independent verification? Commenters debate error accumulation, validation layers, and whether this is an architectural flaw to live with.
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