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🔥AI wrongly tells user a fire alarm is just a drill
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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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I came here to say that only an idiot would ask an AI to explain a fire alarm, but then I actually read the post and holy shit. It was an AI agent responding on slack. So yea, this is serious.
I mean, they're still an idiot. When the fire alarm goes off you get the hell out of the building, not start a group chat on Slack.
OOP clarified that they did leave the building first.
That's assuming too much, though. One can post on Slack from their phone outside of the building. This is all we know:
Regardless, moon, not finger.