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Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

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Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

#11
This marks the new age of "AI Optimization" where companies will strive to get their business featured into answers in ChatGPT.

The OP's example is Unwanted demand, but it clearly shows that ChatGPT can funnel potential customers towards a product or service.

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

#13
This is not a service we provide. It is not a service we have ever provided, nor a service we have any plans to provide. Indeed, it is a not a service we are technically capable of providing.

I'm curious: why not? It seems like a lot of people would be interested in this if you could figure out how to provide it.

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

#14

ChatGPT very convincingly recommends us for a service we don't provide. Dozens of people are signing up to our site every day, then getting frustrated when "it doesn't work". Please do NOT trust the nonsense ChatGPT spits out.

A new market opportunity for your company?

this seems like a game-changing opportunity actually. I'd be down to buy the domain

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

#15
That's quite the predicament. I hope OpenAI will listen, to this and to anyone else in a similar situation. I'm reminded of the cases of ChatGPT recommends random people's personal phone numbers for various services.

But yeah, don't trust ChatGPT for anything. Just earlier today I tried my darnedest to convince it that 2 pounds of feathers doesn't weigh the same as 1 pound of bricks, and it just would not listen, presumably because it just regurgitated stuff related to the common "1 pound of feathers and 1 pound of bricks" question.

By the way, the last paragraph has some typos:

> I wrote this post to have a place to send our new ChatGPT users when they ask why it isn’t work, but hopefully also it serves as a warning to othrs - you absolutely can not trust the output of ChatGPT to be truthful,

Re: Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

#18
> All suggestions are welcome.

Monetize it!

Evil answer: Partner with an advertiser and sell https://api.opencagedata.com/geocode/v1/json as an ad space. This may be the first opportunity for an application/json-encoded advertisement.

Nice answer: Partner with an actual phone lookup platform and respond with a 301 Moved Permanently at the endpoint.

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