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The AI made a calendar event from a webinar email, but missed the link

The AI took a webinar email and made a calendar event for it on its own. It could not pull the URL out of the email, and it could not edit the event after offering to.

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How it works

  1. The AI reads a webinar email
  2. Creates a calendar event from it
  3. Fails to extract the URL from the email
  4. Cannot edit the event it made

Why it’s worth knowing

The AI turned an email into a calendar event on its own, then could not fix the event it had just made.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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