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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is this just on the app? I tried this on the website and it's just giving me reviews and Q&A responses related to the product I was on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Installed to test it and yeah, only the app

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I never felt there was a good reason for this app, they sell stuff online, and that works just fine in a browser without an app spying on my every move.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah I uninstalled it right after lol