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what company would be so dumb as to just put an unfiltered ChatGPT prompt as their search window? ... Amazon. (awful.systems)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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@ILiedAboutCake on Twitter seems to have first noted that Amazon has a new review search engine, Rufus!

... it's just a ChatGPT prompt window. You can ask it about Barack Obama. You can ask it to write your Python script for you.

Corey Quinn (@quinnypig) notes the pornographic limerick that doesn't rhyme properly

Phil Calcado (@pcalcado) notes that it will happily send you to competitors.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

obviously that's incorrect, Amazon GPT knows better

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

"Stop questioning the app. Please comply with the app. Keep your gaze focused on this 30 seconds advertisement - do not deviate your gaze. Thanks for using your Amazon Neural Module"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I so dearly hope there's a quality/coherence/something clause in that contract. because bezoscorp is exactly the right size and type of Bigger to want that (and openai is exactly the type to sub for free compute credits)

imagine the glorious slapfight that might result if this happens to be