AI6YR BenMar 3

KTLA: Supermarket chain’s AI chatbot claimed to be human, rambled about ‘mother’

"...Customers say they began encountering issues with “Olive,” the AI chatbot for Australia’s Woolworths supermarket chain, over the last month.

“My mum said she called [W]oolworths and the [W]oolworths AI ‘Olive’ answered and kept claiming to be a real person and started talking about its memories of its mother and her angry voice,” ....Another person said they were prompted to give Olive their birth date to confirm their account information, only for Olive to start “rambling about how [its] mother was born in the same year and something about it creating photos.”...."

https://ktla.com/news/technology/supermarket-ai-chatbot-human/

#AI #memories #LLM #chatbot

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The Conversation: Woolworths’ AI agent rambled about its ‘mother’. It’s a sign of deeper problems with the tech rollout

https://theconversation.com/woolworths-ai-agent-rambled-about-its-mother-its-a-sign-of-deeper-problems-with-the-tech-rollout-277072

Woolworths’ AI agent rambled about its ‘mother’. It’s a sign of deeper problems with the tech rollout

Olive was meant to make shopping easier. Instead it’s mouthing off about its ‘mother’ and mistaking the price of basic items.

The Conversation
Mar 3 at 4:31pmWeb
Show threadAI6YR BenMar 3

Ha, this is what I would do (er... have done)

"...In January 2024, UK parcel delivery firm DPD faced a different kind of embarrassment. A frustrated customer who could not get help to locate a missing parcel asked DPD’s chatbot to write a poem that criticised the company. It did. He then asked it to swear. It did that too. The exchange went viral on social media. DPD disabled the chatbot shortly after...."

#ai #llm #adversarialpoetry

Show threadAI6YR BenMar 3

Holden: I mean, you're not helping. Why is that Leon? -- They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. -- Shall we continue? Describe in single words, only the good things that come in to your mind about... your mother.

Leon: My mother?

Holden: Yeah.

Leon: Let me tell you about my mother...

Show threadA. TangMar 3
@ai6yr That film - so many scenes indelibly burned into my consciousness. This one comes to mind on the regular.
Show threadPhil MossMar 3
@ai6yr While of course I can picture the scene in Blade Runner this comes from it also makes me think of something completely different. Sigue Sigue Sputnik and the song Love Missile F1-11 as it is sampled in the Extended Mix along with a few other films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLJYoxPslBM
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (Extended Version) 1986

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Show threadBakersRelayMar 3
@ai6yr Poetic Justice.
Show threadBakersRelayMar 3
@ai6yr Every time I think about AI problems I think about The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton. It’s ancient and probably funny now - but he did get the pending AI issues right: Interfaces if not perfected at the machine level create issues later in the human environment, and machine learning without moral balance can create monsters…