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‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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I asked my work’s AI to just give me a comma separated list of string that I gave it, then it returned a list of strings with all the strings being “CREDIT_DEBIT_CARD_NUMBER”. The numbers were 12 digits, not 16. I asked 3 times to give me the raw numbers and had to say exactly “these are 12 digits long not 16. Stop obfuscating it” before it gave me the right things.
I’ve even had it be wrong about simple math. It’s just awful.
Yeah because it's a text generator. You're using the wrong tool for the job.
Exactly. But they tout this as “AI” instead of an LLM. I need to improve my kinda ok regex skills. They’re already better than almost anyone else on my team, but I can improve them.
It’s really crappy at trying to address its own mistakes. I find that it will get into an infinite error loop where it hops between 2-4 answers, none of which are correct. Sometimes it helps to explicitly instruct it to format the data provided and not edit it in any way, but I still get paranoid.
Either you are bad at chatgpt, or I am a machine whisperer but I have a hard time believing copilot couldnt handle that, I am regularly having it rewrite sql code
I was using Amazon Q, so it could just be the shitty LLM.
Oh yeah, that's definitely shitty then, copilot does shit like that really easily