

Amazon is laying off or has lost truly staggering numbers of experienced staff.
So it might not be AI, although my experience with AI suggests it’s right about 60% of the time and there’s no way I would let it implement it’s own recommendations anywhere near anything that earned me money.
It might just be cheaper, younger, newer staff making mistakes they don’t know how to fix.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
This graph clearly shows that AI is also shockingly bad at factual accuracy and at telling a news story in such a way that someone who didn’t already know about it to understand the issues and context. I think you’re misrepresenting this graph as being bad about sources, but here’s a better summary of the point you seem to be making:
AI’s summaries don’t match their source data.
So actually, the headline is pretty accurate in calling it misrepresentation.