OpenCage 👉🌍Feb 23, 2023

We wrote a blog post about our on-going nightmare: ChatGPT recommends us for a service we don't provide.

Dozens of people are signing up to our site every day and then getting frustrated when "it doesn't work". Hugely frustrating.

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

Please do NOT trust the nonsense ChatGPT spits out.

Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service

TL;DR ChatGPT claims we offer an API to turn a mobile phone number into the location of the phone. We do not.

Show threadAtle 🧇🧅Feb 23, 2023
@opencage I'm sorry I'm laughing, but this just goes to show that the stochastic parrot has nothing to do with intelligence!
Show threadOpenCage 👉🌍Feb 23, 2023
@atlefren we laughed at first too. After the 50th support email though we stopped laughing
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@opencage @atlefren https://blog.opencagedata.com/ wrote "Unfortunately it’s not really clear how to solve this. All suggestions are welcome". A "win-win-win" solution would be for https://opencagedata.com/ to find a way to get all the stakeholders who received a misleading response from ChatGPT to have those stakeholders create a ChatGPT feedback stating that misleading response. I have managed in several matters to get ChatGPT to change your response behavior in the direction I wanted.
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Show threadAtle 🧇🧅Feb 24, 2023
@nmouplus @opencage why should third-parties always have to clean up the mess after big tech corps releases their crap?
Show threadneue medienordnung plusFeb 24, 2023
@atlefren @opencage I agree with you about the dirt. But I understood it @opencage is not about justice, but that the problem is solved 😀 .