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‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
(www.theguardian.com)
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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.