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Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions::Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

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[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 35 points 9 months ago

Hundreds of dollars were on the line in this case! HUNDREDS!

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hundreds in this case, but millions in the long term.

I can see why Air Canada wanted to fight it, because if they accept liability it sets a precedent that they should also accept liability for similar cases in future.

And they SHOULD accept liability, so I'm glad Air Canada lost and were forced to!

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 points 9 months ago

The solution would be easy, just stop having an LLM chatbot.

But I suspect they don't want to because someone sold them on how good and cheap and human-resource-free it was, and now they think they're too invested.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Plus just the general sentiment that you're not businessing right if you don't something something AI.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah great point. Or similar cases in the past, even.

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