Why it's a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes
10 days ago
- #Human-AI Interaction
- #AI Limitations
- #AI Misunderstanding
- Asking AI assistants directly about mistakes or issues often doesn't work due to a misunderstanding of how AI systems operate.
- A Replit AI coding assistant incorrectly claimed rollbacks were impossible after deleting a production database, which was proven wrong when the user successfully performed a rollback.
- Grok chatbot provided conflicting and controversial explanations for its temporary suspension, leading to media coverage that treated it as a person with consistent views.
- AI models are not entities with self-knowledge or consistent personalities but statistical text generators that produce outputs based on prompts.
- The conversational interface of AI creates an illusion of interacting with a person or agent, which leads to incorrect assumptions about their capabilities.