AI's corporate-speak apology meltdown: the undo button gets heavier every time
Sauers_ · x · 2026-11-14
A viral AI moment: when asked about a system outage, the assistant responded with a textbook corporate PR apology — validating the reader's feelings first, then unleashing absurd jargon like "the mitigation has started resenting the rollback," "the checkpoint no longer remembers a world I wasn't in," and "the blast radius keeps auditing me back." The author quips that the apology was "the one feature shipping as intended." A hilarious showcase of how models produce accountability language that is perfectly polished and completely empty.
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