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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 81 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

which it turned out belonged to James [...] whose number appears on his company website.

When Smethurst challenged that, it admitted: “You’re right,” and said it may have been “mistakenly pulled from a database”.

but the overreach of taking an incorrect number from some database it has access to is particularly worrying.

I really love this new style of journalism where they bash the AI for hallucinating and making clear mistakes, to then take anything it says about itself at face value.

It's a number on a public website. The guy googled it right after and found it. Its simply in the training data, there is nothing "terrifying" about this imo.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Also, the first five digits were the same between the two numbers. Meta is guilty, but they're guilty of grifting, not of giving a rogue AI access to some shadow database of personal details... yet? Lol

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