The saddest part of this is that the everyone involved from the reporter, to the lottery staff, to the company that provided the service, all appear to think that the prompts they provided to the AI are somehow bulletproof and that their human understanding of the parameters matches what the software will do: “we had the developers check all the parameters for the platform and were comfortable with the settings, but after further internal discussions today, we chose to take down the site out of an abundance of caution.”

I know eventually the reality of these tools’ flaws will seep in but it’s always somewhat surprising to me how certain most people (including tech folks in the field who ought to know better) are that the AI actually “understands” the prompt in the way that a human would.