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Website vendor's AI use wrecks client site, sparking frustration

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A website vendor allegedly used AI to update two pages for a client, resulting in a "disaster" that wrecked the live site. The client is frustrated that the vendor has not admitted to using AI for the update and did not provide a beta version for approval before the changes went live. The client is now facing significant repair work and may need to hire a new vendor if the current one cannot fix the damage. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential risks and lack of transparency in AI tool adoption for common business tasks.

RANK_REASON The item describes a negative user experience with AI, but lacks the scope or authority to be considered significant, research, or a frontier release. It functions more as an anecdote or cautionary tale.

Read on Mastodon — sigmoid.social →

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Website vendor's AI use wrecks client site, sparking frustration

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    @ amydiehl My little company asked our website vendor to do a simple update to two pages and a simple refresh. She has yet to admit that she used AI to complete

    @ amydiehl My little company asked our website vendor to do a simple update to two pages and a simple refresh. She has yet to admit that she used AI to completely wreck our site AND instead of giving us a beta as is customary to approve before going live... the AI just wrecked ou…

    LINKS mstdn.social/@amydiehl

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