The AI train wreck
2025-06-22 23:59:59 +01:00 by Mark Smith
Well I was unfortunately right in my prediction that Gemini would lose important data. It stuffed up so royally earlier that the entire specification I had been writing all day, got totally fubarred. Some weird mix of old versions, with hours of work deleted. When I asked it to go back a few versions it was unable to. I asked it to list all the versions it had. It listed 5 versions that were all from many hours previous. I told it to go back to specific very well known places in the chat history, it was unable to. So much for "don‘t worry it‘s all in the chat".
In the end I‘ve had to accept that I will have to start from scratch. I've asked it to start a fresh document and gave it the list of sections, all in the correct order and numbered.
It apologised profusely.
I banned it from using the words mock, v1 / v2, and conceptually.
It immediately rendered a new document, incorrectly integrating it with the old broken version, despite the fact that I told it to start completely fresh. It also started adding "Future Enhancements" in at least one place, even though I‘ve told it many times to stop imagining the future, to concentrate on the present document, which I keep having to remind it, is in actual fact real.
I wonder how long until someone sues over this type of thing.
You could really spectacularly waste someone‘s time with these AI tools if you were very evil. How long until somebody uncovers that happening at scale? #