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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)
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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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[-] elmtonic@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

just checking - this is a joke about how AI has polluted search results so much that existing systems don't work anymore right

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