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Recent mistakes highlight the risks of AI

A series of problems at Meta and X exposed some of the vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence systems.

The age of artificial intelligence is here, but the current AI systems being pushed out to businesses may not be ready for broad-scale deployment.

Last week, several AI systems made high-profile, significant mistakes. Those mistakes sparked concerns about business interference in political messaging and contributed to the spread of misinformation.

First, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in an Oct. 17 Threads post that the No Kings Instagram account had been mistakenly restricted. This happened because the account saw a significant uptick in activity ahead of the weekend’s No Kings Day event.

Comments below Stone’s post indicated that people in the app suspected Meta of censoring the No Kings account due to political pressure. But Stone said that the No Kings account had been restricted automatically, due to Meta’s internal system rules.

Stone provided more context in a new Threads post the following day.

As per Stone: “Our engineering team discovered that the spike that triggered the incorrect enforcement was primarily in the account’s ‘reading’ behavior. Specifically, our network security systems detected the use of a Claude tool reading profiles, posts, and hashtags, the rate of which sharply increased (~4x volume) in intense bursts on October 17. … These abrupt, high-volume, sequential requests in a short period resembled automated bot traffic rather than an ordinary human browsing our systems.



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