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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)

submitted 8 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@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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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

it would also be nice to have a magical flying unicorn pony that ejaculates rainbows, but all we got is this retired seaside donkey with a cornetto strapped to its head and we fed it food colouring and laxatives

[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Tell me more about this donkey...