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The “AI” isn't an idiot.
It isn't even intelligence, nor, arguably, artificial (since LLM models are grown, not built).
It's just a fancy autocomplete engine simulating a conversation based on statistical information about language, but without any trace of comprehension of the words and sentences it's producing.
It's working as correctly as it possibly can, the business was simply scammed into using a tool (a toy, really) that by definition can't be suited for the job they intended it to do.
It is idiotic though
Yeah, quite.
Though, to be fair, the scammers and the LLMs themselves are pretty good at convincing their victims that the damn things are actually smart, to the point that some otherwise quite intelligent people have fallen for it.
And come to think of it, given that most investors have fallen hook line and sinker for the scam, if you're publicly traded catering to their idiotic whims and writing off the losses caused by the LLM might actually be more profitable, if most of your customers aren't smart enough to take advantage of your silliness...
Artificial Idiot
What kind of a distinction is that?
I mean that no one designed or built the model, it's just a compressed representation of (the shape of) the data it's trained on.
If by artificial we mean something made by people, we could argue that this isn't (though by the same logic neither would a zip file).