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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] 86 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I asked it to write a Seinfeld episode about the product I was viewing, Trojan condoms. It writes a cautionary tale for me where Elaine is warning everyone not to buy them because the condoms are defective.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

Forward it to Trojan and suggest they sue for libel, Amazon is one of their official vendors.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Defective? I don't believe it. I'm gonna go buy the biggest box they have.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's up with Elaine's change of tone? She was saying the condoms were great until Kramer came in, and then switched to saying she had a bad experience.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s because the AI has no idea what reality is. Note also that Elaine’s praise took on the perspective of the wearer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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