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Title: AI Darwin Awards Launch To Celebrate Spectacularly Bad Deployments

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/0129252/a...

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Darwin Awards are being extended to
include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI.
Nominations are open for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards and the list of contenders
is growing, fueled by a tech world weary of AI and evangelists eager to shove
it somewhere inappropriate. There's the Taco Bell drive-thru incident, where
the chain catastrophically overestimated AI's ability to understand customer
orders. Or the Replit moment, where a spot of vibe coding nuked a production
database, despite instructions from the user not to fiddle with code without
permission. Then there's the woeful security surrounding an AI chatbot used
to screen applicants at McDonald's, where feeding in a password of 123456
gave access to the details of 64 million job applicants.

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