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Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)

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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] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

AI » GAN » AI » GAN

Turns out it wasn't monkeys on typewriters that wrote perfect Shakespeare stories, it was trillions of transistors in a war of attrition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

it was trillions of transistors in a war of attrition

By replacing the typewriter with a lever, you could probably achieve a similar result using monkeys.