cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/28693796
Check the comments of the original post for the stupidity.
For those of you without an electrical background, the diagram shows the protective earth connected directly to phase, with phase and neutral also joined.
Correctly wired, this would be a three pin plug, with the earth wire connected to the earth pin in the plug, with the other end connected to the metal casing of the appliance. This is a critical safety feature, which will cause the circuit protection to trip in the event a phase wire contacts the metal of whatever this is connected to.
If this was actually done, the most likely outcome is it would trip a circuit breaker, but if the neutral was broken, it would connect phase directly to the casing, and likely electrocute someone.
To be fair you are incredibly stupid if you ask this technology to render critical instructions and don’t cross-reference it with any actual concrete information.
I do think that these companies should be held responsible for some negative consequences of their actions but people are going to be stupid and hurt themselves no matter what.
They trust something that is hailed to them as the ultimative super brain. They didn’t get warned that the service is not a reliable source of information.
If you have to tell your customers not to stick kitchen knifes into children and not to attempt to stop the chainsaws’ running chain with your hand, AI-providing services should at least be required to put thick warnings on their pages not to trust their lives. I just bought a kitchen-machine, and it has pages over pages of warnings in them for about things I would not have thought that people would need to be warned of…