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No AI was used in the creation of these clusterfucks:
The Lake Peigneur Maelstrom - In November 1980, Texaco was conducting exploratory oil drilling directly on top of a shallow, 10-foot-deep freshwater lake. Operating directly underneath that same lake was a massive, active multi-level salt mine
The Banqiao "Iron Dam" Collapse (China, 1975) Built in the early 1950s for flood control, the Banqiao earthen dam was heavily reinforced with Soviet engineering assistance and proudly nicknamed the "Iron Dam" by the government, which declared it completely unbreakable
The Capsizing of the Vasa Warship (Sweden, 1628) In 1628, King Gustavus Adolphus built the Vasa, an opulent warship meant to serve as the crown jewel of the Swedish Navy. It was designed to intimidate enemies with unprecedented firepower.
The gas tank in the back of the Ford Pinto.
The Tesla Cybertruck (well, maybe some AI got in there, but the core bad ideas were well established before ChatGPT was "a thing".)
Lead in gasoline
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (New York, 1911) The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory occupied the top floors of a Manhattan building, employing hundreds of young immigrant women. Management routinely ignored basic industrial safety measures to maximize profits and prevent employee theft. The "Obviously Dangerous" Reality: Locking workers inside a high-rise room filled with flammable textiles and scraps creates a lethal death trap in an emergency.
Bhopal 1984
Chernobyl 1986
The Hillsborough Stadium Disaster (Sheffield, UK, 1989) During an FA Cup semifinal match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, thousands of fans arrived outside the Leppings Lane end of the stadium just before kickoff, creating a massive, chaotic bottleneck at the turnstiles. The "Obviously Dangerous" Reality: Opening a massive exit gate to let thousands of frantic people rush blindly down a narrow tunnel into an already overcrowded, fenced-in terrace creates a lethal human crush.
The Who - December 3, 1979 at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
School shootings...
I don't think you understand either the concept of Statistics or the one of common sense.
You're comparing frequent extreme events of an obviously nonsensical nature by LLMs given very limited responsibility (like the one were it tells a person with suicidal thoughts to "kill yourself") with rare events due to design failures of highly complex systems in situations of huge responsibility.
That's not merely as mismatched as an "apples" and "oranges" comparison, that's as mismatched as an "apples" and "major engineering project" comparison.
Now ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for apple pie.
What's complex about "there's a salt mine under this lake you're drilling in?" Or "you're putting a gas tank in the most common impact crumple zone on the vehicle?" or "We've seen this problem before, many times, but we're just going to continue to let it happen again and again?"