David GerardMar 12, 2024

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

https://awful.systems/post/1162461

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

@ILiedAboutCake on Twitter seems to have first noted [https://twitter.com/ILiedAboutCake/status/1766509947016139163] 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 [https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1767568319236972901] Phil Calcado (@pcalcado) notes that it will happily send you to competitors [https://twitter.com/pcalcado/status/1767393063700210150]. [https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/19a5d07b-c17b-4977-af05-79478e830c6c.png] [https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/52970676-1066-4dae-8bed-419f627edaa7.png] [https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/bb3e866e-911c-4c48-aaa5-d86a79a776ab.png]

Show threadF/15/[email protected]Mar 12, 2024
Barely relevant but aren’t limericks line a, rhyme a, line b, rhyme b, rhyme a?
Show threadDavid Gerard
obviously that’s incorrect, Amazon GPT knows better
Mar 12, 2024 at 11:41pmWeb
Show threadkaduMar 13, 2024
“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”
Show threadfroztbyteMar 13, 2024

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