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DPD has disabled part of its online support chatbot after it swore at a customer (www.bbc.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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DPD has disabled part of its online support chatbot after it swore at a customer::The parcel delivery firm says the mistake was a result of a system update, which has been disabled.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Essentially someone posing as some sort of AI company sold DPD ChatGPT with some starting instructions, probably for at least 5 figures.

I'm sure if you poke around some freelancer website you too could spend an hour downloading a model and packaging it up for a company with a hundred million dollar market cap who wants to save $50,000 on outsourcing.