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This actually makes sense. I can't believe people actually think outlook being down would take down all departures across the US

>I can't believe people actually think outlook being down would take down all departures across the US

Because American infrastructure is modern, well designed, maintained and funded? Because government is competent and rational? I could absolutely believe that would happen.

That is an extremely bad idea.

It's just a route optimizer. Unlikely to have anything to do with this.

If true and this ends up lasting an hour or more, that's going to be undeniably, objectively hilarious. At least they used to keep the planes running on time!

Oh boy, that feels plausible. Some of these legacy systems are pretty fragile and aren't designed to be queried heavily outside of well established patterns.

I could see AI deploying something that just obliterates those systems with requests.

If so we are really speedrunning into idiocracy with AI.

You are right, it isn't. Good for you.

holy fuck that website is shit

What can you expect from gawker?

Gizmodo hasn't been run by Gawker for over a decade

lfmao, really bad timing but I really doubt something announced yesterday went into effect today, it's probably going to be rolled out in the future.

You are right, it isn't. Good for you.

Doubtful. That tool likely suggests "improved" clearances, which a controller can use at their discretion. It likely does not control clearances directly.

And the early reports describe the issue as related to ATC communication infrastructure.

Depends on why systems they've tied into it. I could see an AI system DDOSing legacy systems that are relied on by ATC.