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Re: "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

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Post by Devasta »

cedws wrote: post #5

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This is very interesting, as it shows what the future of customer support looks like.

I worked for 5 years in an insurance call center. Most people believe call centers are designed to deliberately waste your time so you just hang up and don't bother the company; there is nothing I could say that would dissuade you of this, because I believe it too.

In the future, we're all going to be stuck wrestling with AI chatbots that are nothing more than a stalling tactic; you'll argue with it for an age trying to get a refund or whatever and it'll just spin away without any capability to do anything except exhaust you, and on the off chance you do have it agree to refund you the company will just say "Oh, that was a bug in the bot, no refunds sorry!" and the whole process starts again.

A lot of people think about AI and wonder how good it'll get, but that is the wrong question. How bad will companies accept is the more prescient one.

Re: "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

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Post by jordanpg »

cedws wrote: post #5

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You are dismissive, but I assure you this kind of thing will keep lawyers and courts busy for some time to come.

This raises all kinds of interesting legal issues that have no obvious resolution:

* can agency be delegated to an LLM?

* can an LLM create a contract on behalf of itself? another? an organization?

* does the answer change if the person(s) or organization(s) want the LLM to be able to form contracts?

* are contracts created by an LLM bound by the statute of frauds?

* what happens with unspecified contract terms given that an LLM has perfect knowledge of the UCC?

* does the parol rule apply to the LLM conversation prior to the formation of a contract?

And on and on. Law students all over the world are busy writing law review articles about these questions.

Re: "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

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Post by layer8 »

sorenjan wrote: post #7

Someone on Reddit got a really nice love story between a Chevy Tahoe and Chevy Chase from it. https://imgur.com/vfHGHW6 https://imgur.com/JSjNC2c https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/18kjwcj/why_pay_ind...

One can wonder if we have too much or too little G in the AGI there.

Edit: Fixed typo from “GAI”.

Re: "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

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Post by xnorswap »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #4
isp wrote: post #2

A cautionary tale for why not to put unfiltered ChatGPT output directly to customers. Nitter mirror: https://nitter.net/ChrisJBakke/status/1736533308849443121 Related - "New kind of resource consumption attack just dropped": https://twitter.com/loganb/status/1736449964006654329 | https://nitter.net/loganb/status/1736449964006654329

There's no such thing as a filtered LLM output. How do you plan on avoiding leaks or "side effects" like the tweet here? If you just look for keywords in the output, I'll ask ChatGPT to encode its answers in base64. You can literally always bypass any safeguard.

Not any safeguard: You could have a human in the loop doing the filtering.

Would that be slower than having the human generate the responses? Perhaps.

Re: "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

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Post by cedws »

jordanpg wrote: post #13
cedws wrote: post #5

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You are dismissive, but I assure you this kind of thing will keep lawyers and courts busy for some time to come. This raises all kinds of interesting legal issues that have no obvious resolution: * can agency be delegated to an LLM? * can an LLM create a contract on behalf of itself? another? an organization? * does the answer change if the person(s) or organization(s) want the LLM to be able to form contracts? * are…

These are interesting questions, but an Nth variation of "prompt injection" via an alternative ChatGPT interface is not, and Chevy are not going to be liable to sell a $1 vehicle just because ChatGPT said they are.

Re: "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

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Post by jack_riminton »

The twitterer is a renowned (and much accomplished!) sh*tposter, I highly suspect this was doctored. I believe Chevy caught onto this yesterday and reverted the ChatGPT function in the chat.

Regardless, still hilarious and potentially quite scary if the comments are tied to actions

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