Both this and what Meta said reminds me of "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM)

I also can't believe the people who were involved with writing this response from Meta, didn't realize how obviously bad it sounds. It's like there is no humans working and writing there anymore.

> It's like there is no humans working and writing there anymore.

Don't know if AI is to blame, but I've used to see these kinds of nonsense post-mortems even in the pre-llm era, and it's always due to some internal fighting ongoing between various departments.

Where do you think the LLMs learned it from...

"Who taught you how to do this stuff?"

"You, alright! I learned it by watching you!"

Pretty much. The most depressing thing about the bland slop produced by LLMs is realizing that this is what they "think" of us.

I was reminded of the Murray Walker quote. “There's nothing wrong with the car except it's on fire”

My dad says, "But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

(Usually said jocularly when everyone is at their most upset, e.g. a vacation ruined)

A friend said at one of those moments, "And other than that, how was the play Mrs Lincoln?" And the 3rd person replied, "I don't know, I've never seen the play 'Mrs Lincoln'"

“The strait of Hormuz is open so long as Iran does not fire missiles at ships.”

"The numbers will go down as soon as you quit testing"

The actual quote was "if you don't test, you won't have cases"

> like there is no humans working and writing there anymore

Meta has never been a place for people with empathy to thrive or succeed. They literally enabled a genocide. Despite being warned by internal employees, profits were more important.

Which one. They have several under their blood soaked belt now

Very rigorous software engineering standards.

Does it matter if the response is tone deaf or simply misguided? I am a bit nihilistic here, but in one week absolutely nobody will be talking about this. Are the affected individuals going to abandon instagram? Are people going to reduce their usage out of concern for the safety of their accounts? Nothing will happen, hence there is no need for actual humans writing a good, well intended response.

> in one week absolutely nobody will be talking about this.

In news media, sure. But in IT teams around the world people will be referring to this (the exploit opening stupidity) for years as how NOT to do things. :)

Everyone has a limit to how much bullshit they'll put up with. This could be the last straw for some people to finally quit Instagram. I quit Instagram, Facebook and all other Meta properties in 2025, after complaining about various problems for years. Other people may quit temporarily and then return, but any time they spend away from Instagram may give them experience that will help them quit permanently later.

> Does it matter if the response is tone deaf or simply misguided?

I agree with you that in a week nobody will be talking any more, but I'm pretty sure it's a GDPR data breach, and they can have some trouble within EU.

Yeah, they probably don't give a fu.. about EU, but if the response doesn't matter at all why did they spend time on it?

Haha.. This reminds me of a classic Windows MessageBox meme that goes: "Operation failed successfully!"

We have the same saying in German: Operation erfolgreich, Patient tot.

"Operation succesful, patient dead" is a common saying in India.

I found an English use from 1883 - https://archive.org/details/argonaut131883sanf/page/n391/mod... .

> The creosote in toothache drops administered to a New York boy cured the pain, but killed the boy. This recalls the entry in the register at Bellevue Hospital, which reads; "Operation successful. Patient died."

The Argonaut, San Francisco, December 22, 1883.

Maybe it was euthanasia?