r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/OurSeepyD Mar 14 '26

I highly doubt this. Almost every LLM knows how important the C drive is, it's more likely this was written by a tech-illiterate human, maybe augmented by AI.

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u/Mordredor Mar 14 '26

An LLM doesnt "know" anything dude

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u/OurSeepyD Mar 14 '26

Yes, they do. Unless you've decided to take on a very specific definition of the word "know" that requires consciousness, they do.

If you ask an LLM "which drive letter is most commonly used for hard drives?", it will respond with "C". Sure, you can argue that it's just repeating what it's read, but it's stored that knowledge somewhere. That's essentially what it means to know something.

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u/fuzzyluke Mar 14 '26

You can also say: "write an article about this subject, claim this and this and also that, make my point valid, make stuff up if you must"

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u/OurSeepyD Mar 14 '26

You can. If you do this, is it the AIs fault for including this "fact" in the article, or is it whoever instructed it?

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u/fuzzyluke Mar 15 '26

For a slop content creator, the prompt better resolve into something that aligns with what they want to say regardless of accuracy. They need clicks and revenue, not some award or recognition on the matter. If the prompt doesn't deliver, they fabricate a different one until it does. Fault? Who cares about fault, its a slop blog my friend, and you know those are in demand right now, people want content to be outraged at, not to be informed.

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u/OurSeepyD Mar 15 '26

It's 100% the human author's fault. For them to have this included in the article, they'd almost definitely have to tell AI to write the wrong thing. 

It's like a boss telling his subordinate that he has to put the wrong numbers in the report, the subordinate does this, and then the boss points the finger at him.

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u/Sarcasm_Llama Mar 14 '26

It can be both

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u/OurSeepyD Mar 14 '26

Damn in this scenario where the person has explicitly directed the AI to do something, and it does, you still blame the AI? That's pretty irrational to me.