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Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's funny that this one does both at once. It lies about Amazon working conditions, meaning it probably has been censored in some way, but at the same time it is recommending Nazi books. Really shows Amazon's priorities when it comes to censorship.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At least Amazon is thinking of the shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Although if I was to shareholder of Amazon i would be wondering why we even stock Nazi textbooks. Morality aside, they cannot really be that much of a market for them and even if there was the PR hit probably isn't worth it.

If it turns out there is a market for them we should probably separate off that part of the business to avoid PR blunders.