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Air Canada did this a bit ago, and their AI gave the customer a fake process for submitting claims for some sort of discount on airfare due to bereavement (the flight was for a funeral). The customer sued and Air Canada's defense was that he shouldn't have trusted the Air Canada AI chatbot. Air Canada lost.


That was in 2022, before LLMs, and they "lost" as in they had to pay back $482 USD.


Weird deflection. GPT 3, a 175 billion parameter model, came out in 2020, so it very much is not before LLMs. I guess you can say the story happened before ChatGPT by a few weeks. As for putting lost in quotation marks, I have no idea why you think the quantity of money is relevant to the outcome. No one was expecting them to file bankruptcy over this, only to follow the original agreement.




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