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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] 114 points 8 months ago (44 children)

So this is the problem with AI, if you add guardrails you're a culture warrior 1984'ing the whole world, and if you don't now your tool will generate resumes with fake experience or recommend offensive books.

At the risk of sounding like a jackass, when do we start blaming people for asking for such things?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

So more or less the same as with human interactions.

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