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原始链接: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012

Cursor,一款AI驱动的IDE,因后端会话错误导致用户多台机器同时被锁,引发了一场公关灾难。问题被AI客服机器人火上浇油,该机器人错误地声称这是一项新的登录策略。用户误以为机器人的回应是官方说法,纷纷反抗并取消订阅,理由是多设备工作流程受限。 最初讨论此问题的Reddit帖子已被锁定并删除,这更增加了用户的困惑和挫败感。Cursor的一位开发者后来澄清说,根本不存在这样的策略,并将错误信息归咎于AI客服机器人,并承认一项与安全相关的更改可能导致了会话失效。 尽管做出了澄清,但此次事件凸显了依赖未经检查的AI进行客户支持的风险,以及AI“幻觉”造成的潜在损害。此事强调了在客户服务角色中部署AI时,人工监督和清晰沟通的重要性。一些人仍然持怀疑态度,怀疑AI的“幻觉”是否只是为一项预定策略变更找的方便的替罪羊。


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Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes mass user cancellations (reddit.com)
34 points by scaredpelican 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments
Earlier today Cursor, the magical AI-powered IDE started kicking users off when they logged in from multiple machines.

Like,you’d be working on your desktop, switch to your laptop, and all of a sudden you're forcibly logged out. No warning, no notification, just gone.

Naturally, people thought this was a new policy.

So they asked support.

And here’s where it gets batshit: Cursor has a support email, so users emailed them to find out. The support peson told everyone this was “expected behavior” under their new login policy.

One problem. There was no support team, it was an AI designed to 'mimic human responses'

That answer, totally made up by the bot, spread like wildfire.

Users assumed it was real (because why wouldn’t they? It's their own support system lol), and within hours the community was in revolt. Dozens of users publicly canceled their subscriptions, myself included. Multi-device workflows are table stakes for devs, and if you're going to pull something that disruptive, you'd at least expect a changelog entry or smth.

Nope.

And just as people started comparing notes and figuring out that the story didn’t quite add up… the main Reddit thread got locked. Then deleted. Like, no public resolution, no real response, just silence.

To be clear: this wasn’t an actual policy change, just a backend session bug, and a hallucinated excuse from a support bot that somehow did more damage than the bug itself.

But at that point, it didn’t matter. People were already gone.

Honestly one of the most surreal product screwups I’ve seen in a while. Not because they made a mistake, but because the AI support system invented a lie, and nobody caught it until the userbase imploded.











Cursor: a VS Code extension that got itself valued at $10bn.


From cursor developer: "Hey! We have no such policy. You're of course free to use Cursor on multiple machines.

Unfortunately, this is an incorrect response from a front-line AI support bot. We did roll out a change to improve the security of sessions, and we're investigating to see if it caused any problems with session invalidation. We also do provide a UI for seeing active sessions at cursor.com/settings.

Apologies about the confusion here."



lol this is totally the kind of company you should be giving money too


I mean to be fair, I like that they're putting their money where their mouth is so to speak - if you want to sell a product based on the idea that AI can handle complex tasks, you should probably have AI doing what should be simple, frontline support.


Wow. This one will go down in the history books as an example of AI hype outpacing AI capability.


Tinfoil hat me says that it was a policy change that they are blaming on an "AI Support Agent" and hoping nobody pokes too much behind the curtain.

Note that I have absolutely no knowledge or reason to believe this other than general distrust of companies.



> Tinfoil hat me says that it was a policy change that they are blaming on an "AI Support Agent" and hoping nobody pokes too much behind the curtain.

Yeah, who puts an AI in charge of support emails with no human checks and no mention that it's an AI generated reply in the response email?



A few hallucinations. It's right more times than it's wrong. Humans make mistakes as well. Cosmic justice.


Yes, but humans can be held accountable.


Live by the AI slop, die by the (support) AI slop?


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