Ford AI fiasco:

[applegrove]

I’m starting to think A.I. might not, in fact, live up to the hype 🤯

— Prof Gavin Yamey (@gavinyamey.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T17:43:53.148Z

[RockRaven]

1. So the executives who dictated that dumbshit AI policy, predictably failing & costing billions, have been canned, right?

Right?

:crickets:

[struggle4progress]

3. We can't get rid of the ruling class!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. No, they got bonuses for buying AI and firing workers.

Now they'll get more bonuses for hiring experienced engineers. Hopefully paying a nice premium over their former pay.

[struggle4progress]

2. "We don't need real intelligence. We'll just use simulated intelligence! What could go wrong?"

[RandomNumbers]

5. L - O - fucking L. "didn't pay as much attention ...." didn't start with AI

AI just makes it rampantly worse.

Big corporations have been dissing and dismissing their most experienced* engineers for a long time.

* "most experienced" usually means "oldest", i.e. at least over 45. Hello age discrimination.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. A prime example of mgmt rushing to embrace new tech, thinking that it'll fix all, do all. Figures that they screwed up

big time. They should have known this, any decent guy in the cusp of dealing w/ IT, knowledge-based systems/etc. would have known this already.

[Aussie105]

7. Whatever the question, AI isn't the answer.

Just wondering whereabouts people lost faith in human intelligence and experience, and want to handball anything complicated to AI.

The opportunity to do blame shifting?

'AI made me do it, don't blame me!'
'I was told AI was infallible!'

Sit back and let the machine do the driving?
(Looking at you, Tesla.)

[mucholderthandirt]

8. It's not about losing faith in humans or their intelligence, it is as always about money.

AI doesn't need salary, vacation and sick days, it never joins a union, it never lays out of work because the wife gave it too much happy time, it never gets old, dies or retires. Sure, the initial cost is high, but updates are free or cheap, and when the next better AI comes along, you've saved enough money to pay out for it.

On the other hand, it's not intelligent, it's just a slightly better computer program. It's wrong more than its right, often glitches and does shit you don't want it to do. It is expensive (this stuff isn't ChatGPT, or Claude, or Rufus or Gemini any moron can use), and it has to be updated all the time because it's shit programming to begin with.

But I've been trying to tell people for years, but who listens to me? I'm no expert, I just have eyes and ears and a working brain who happens to thinks humans are pretty awesome and we should treat them right and pay them living wages. I'm especially not amused at people in the writing world who think AI is going to give them a career without learning anything, who can't put a good story together and believe AI is going to do it. Cue that "easy, passive income on kindle" all the scammers are selling! It doesn't exist, by the way, no matter what you do, writing has always been a shaky and stupid thing to try to make a living at, most fail.