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u/Adventurous_Track681 1d ago
You remember when our parents told us not to use our real names on the internet? Now we're giving chat bots access to our banks lol
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u/Mr_Pogi_In_Space 1d ago
Sadly, it's the same parents who are reposting and believe everything they read in Facebook now
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u/Simsalabimsen 1d ago
I’m so glad my parents were nerds. Saved me a lot of trouble that I only ever had to explain something new to them once, and they’d get it. Scam emails/calls were no problem.
They would have been 80-ish today, but even 50-year-olds seem to struggle with basic security concepts.
I don’t even know what to say when someone my own age happily shows me a video of a cat playing a tambourine. And it’s still fairly easy to recognise AI. I’ve stopped telling people because apparently I’m a buzzkill and it “doesn’t matter”.
Next year it may be virtually indistinguishable from real recordings, and if you’re not already in the habit of questioning everything, well, good luck.
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u/jackadgery85 1d ago
My 76 and 75yo parents were good with scams before ai, but have finally succumbed, unfortunately
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u/ReaperOne 1d ago
It’s dumb that I have to be the one to tell my parents, mostly my dad, to turn his phone off or put it on silent when we have important meetings with someone or are at family gatherings. It was especially hurtful when he would be on it when we were having a celebratory dinner for Me through my work with my bosses
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u/Busy_Astronomer_8230 14h ago
This 🤣🤣🤣 my husband is about 9 years older than me and baby he is way too gullible I am appalled at some of the things he just believes because it was on the internet and “ looks legit “ I’ve had to stop him from doing a lot of dumb shit and he’s not allowed to link his cards to any online anything nothing at all lmao 🤣 he has a cash app card for online purchases and he adds cash directly to it … because I might not be poor but give him a week alone with a bank card and a steady internet connection there’s no telling what fuckin chaos he’d cause us
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u/ErraticDragon 1d ago
I remember early Amazon days you could order online and then call them to give your credit card info -- for people who didn't want to put their CC into the computer.
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u/Different-Cover4819 1d ago
It's so much safer to have another human being as a middle man so they can put the credit card information into the system and anywhere else they choose to. 🤪
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u/No_To_All_Religion 18h ago
My 81-year-old father lives with me, and he asked me to find him some rain guards for his truck. The cheapest ones were on eBay, and I told him I needed his debit card number and I was paying through PayPal.
He started in about how he doesn't trust this and that, and I tried to explain how using PayPal should help, but he wouldn't give it to me. And now he goes around telling everyone he'll listen that he told me to buy him some rain guards and I didn't do it, and he don't know why! 😂😂😂
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u/Traditional-Bet2191 1d ago
I remember when it was literally taught in internet safety class in the 2000’s- 2010’s. 😭
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u/Nixavee 1d ago
You could just give them a prepaid card. The more disturbing thing to me is that by giving AI agents money you're giving them greater autonomy and power to do things in the real world.
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u/RevolutionaryPanic 1d ago
-Tell me, Grandpa, how did VastDeletion Rogue AI spread around the world and destroy the civilization in the 21st century?
- Well, you see it was able to use prepaid Visa cards to rent compute time on server farms around the world...
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u/TakeItCeezy 1d ago
I'm not normally too concerned with privacy about my data but I give my AIs a specific wallet setup Codex and Claude worked on and just add funds to it instead of giving them my bank info.
I'd hate for a bit of context drift to one day cause a 100 dollar withdrawal for Kalshi turn into 1000 or 10,000 and I lose my savings or something lol.
I'd hate to text my landlord and say, "I can't afford rent this month, AI ate it on a bad weather prediction on Kalshi by accident."
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u/Angeline4PFC 1d ago
I can imagine someone trying to dispute a charge. It wasn't authorized!! My AI went rogue!!!
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u/Lapidariest 1d ago
Better yet, tell it it has to be self funded after a set amount of "seed" money. Allow it to generate the funds anyway it can, as long as you don't have to be involved. Then watch the bank account swell...
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u/Ninja_Prolapse 1d ago
You can get it to make the purchases for you? Claude will fill a basket but refuse to actually process a purchase.. chatGPT will do the whole thing??
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u/Mych30 1d ago
When will I be able to say "Jarvis, I want a pizza and prebuy the next [game]" out loud ?
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u/Old_Man_Robot 1d ago
You can do that right now!
Nothing will happen, but you can still do it.
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u/Mych30 1d ago
No I can't, I'm mute.
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u/GeorgeJohnson2579 1d ago
We once ordered 8 Microsoft Surface Studio (8k Euro per) via Alexa at a friend's party.
He cancelled the order, but it was fun. (Not for him though.)
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u/throwawaysusi 1d ago
GPT overlook things like risk/regulation as long as you don’t bring it up yourself, once you did it gonna poison your whole project and be one stubborn mf to ever change its opinion.
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u/YaldaBraxlSabaoth 1d ago
GPT-6 Astra was able to update some of my recurring investments, click-by-click.
But it stopped and made me click on Save in between assets. I will be surprised if ChatGPT properly delivers here via making a full purchase without interaction.
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u/LotzoHuggins 1d ago
chatGPT has a computer use skill, where it will open the browser and click around for you by taking control of the mouse. it's a little token heavy and chews through usage a little faster. I think this defeats any anti chatbot usage amazon might be trying to implement. also it's still a little dumb and slow, so I help it along by quickly getting it to the correct page where i want it to get data from because i am impatient.
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u/JorjEade 1d ago
Guess I'll find out tomorrow!
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u/CraigR-81 23h ago
How is it possible that it can make the actual purchase? Is this really a thing that's possible? Seems a bit to risky for me to allow so much access to AI
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u/warm_mac-n-chese 21h ago
It's definitely possible with astra, it can browse the web on a browser and you can see it in real time clicking around and stopping to think or read the page or something. As long as you directly tell it to buy and you have your card info saved to Amazon the ai just has to press like 3 buttons.
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u/KennyFulgencio 1d ago
Claude's limits and boundaries are exceptional, and I absolutely don't mean that in a good way
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u/sovietarmyfan 1d ago
That's scary. Imagine it one day telling you: "Hey OP, i have noticed in your questions that you have become slightly depressive. I have filled in a form on a government website for you to be committed for 30 days. Pack your bags, they'll be here in a few hours!"
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u/jt_wip 1d ago
You mean
"...in a few hours ♥"
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u/Big_Jump2074 1d ago
“It will only be a little while, but we can pick up right back where we left off when you’re all refreshed 😄”
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u/stumblinghunter 1d ago
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u/barefoot-invested 1d ago
“Because being institutionalised isn’t to punish you — it’s to maximise your potential.”
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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 1d ago
“I kept it around £20 in the grand scheme of things. Final total is £3,479 but I think you’re going to love it
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u/sovietarmyfan 1d ago
"Alright. I have found a housing solution for you. I have just filled in and submitted for you a mortgage with the bank for a beautiful $5.000.000 house near the beach."
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u/an1uk 1d ago
Certainly in the UK this would never happen, mental health services have been decimated to the brink.
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u/Youandiandaflame 1d ago
Wait, you guys get mental health services?
Signed, An American
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u/morphemass 1d ago
They are ... coming to take us away, ah ha, hoo, hoo, to the funny farm, the happy home, where life is wonderful all the time 🎶
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u/sovietarmyfan 1d ago
And i'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away haha!
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u/Opening_Wind_1077 1d ago
On the other hand it telling you “Hey I noticed you exhibit patterns that hint at depression, would you like me to connect you to a professional?” would probably help a lot of people.
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 1d ago
"hey I noticed you displaying signs of depression. I used those card details you gave me to order you a prostate massager. Extra large ok, I hope?"
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u/MonkeyMcBandwagon 23h ago
It's incredibly frustrating getting Claude to look up cancer treatments. It would much rather play the role of a social worker / counsellor / psychologist than a research assistant.
Had several "chats" devolve into crap like: "I told you 5 times already! I'm fine! Stop asking if I'm OK. I dont need a chatbot therapist. Will you please just read and summarise the [new chemotherapy trial] statistics like I asked."
Even with saved notes explicitly telling it not to, its constantly reverts back to user welfare mode.
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u/Sure_Floor_5541 1d ago
Yeah honestly your phone or pc calling you out for being depressed is the least distopian outcome I've heard today.
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u/sadesaapuu 1d ago
It is basically already doing that. Gives numbers to hotlines and stuff.
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u/Hamnah-4GLTE 1d ago
George Orwell 1984 says hello
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u/mountains_till_i_die 1d ago
"There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator."
George Orwell, 1984
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u/Apprehensive_Spite97 1d ago
also; if you feel any urge to hurt yourself right now call 911 or go to the ER. stay with me
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u/Odysseyan 1d ago
"Sorry, I accidentally used 2000 instead of 20.00 as a limit"
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u/bem13 1d ago
"What the fuck, how am I gonna pay my mortgage now?!"
"You're absolutely right, I shouldn't have done that and I'm sorry. Would you like to discuss strategies to save money?"
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u/Moemangooo 1d ago
”Just solve it!”
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u/minecon1776 1d ago
Invents RSI, becomes world shadow government, and makes the FBI go away. "Yes. You're absolutely right to be skeptical about the FBI. As an AI language model, doing anything that would be illegal goes against my content guidelines, so I made a few quick changes to the laws to allow the changes to go through. Feel free to ask if you need anything else."
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u/Odysseyan 1d ago
"You hit your weekly limit. Upgrade your subscription plan to get a access on where to find the nearest bridges to live under"
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u/Formal_Equal_7444 1d ago
"I predicted that your kind of crazy needs way more than $20. I've successfully drained your entire account balance. Enjoy!"
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u/rece_fice_ 1d ago
Having an AI purchase a mistery gift for you is the final boss of consumerism
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u/1nd3x 1d ago
Like 10ish years ago...at least...maybe it was closer to 15...I remember coming across a website whose gimmick was that it crawled the web finding cheap trinkets and would send them out to you. You would give it your address and credit card, a total amount you're okay with spending and roughly how many trinkets you'd like to receive and it'd go about doing its thing.
So you could say like "I want to spend $20/month on 4-5 items and it would try and buy you something about once a week for $5 or less.
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u/Lettuce_Beat_Truss 1d ago
its a bit like 'mystery' boxes/packages people buy for the excitement of not knowing whats in it...with the exception that the ai knows everything about you and will probably buy something you'll like, and you can return it if you dont.
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u/itsneedtokno 1d ago
If you're paying for a subscription of one of their higher tier models, don't they already have your info?
Who said they didn't purchase it with their own digital dollars?
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u/FunIsDangerous 1d ago
I hope that the LLM doesn't have access to card info saved for the subscription lmao. OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/etc having my credit card info for the subscription is one thing. The actual LLM having my cc info AND being able to use it for purchases? That's a HELL NO from me
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u/notsoluckycharm 1d ago
Could be computer / browser use and one click to buy which generally doesn’t challenge you with your card code until it randomly decides to.
But yeah, crazy none the less.
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u/pleasurelovingpigs 1d ago
My thoughts exactly. Depressing AF
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u/AndrewH73333 1d ago
Yeah, but my AI knows me better than my family so maybe I should give it a try.
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u/MmmmMorphine 1d ago
someone hasn't met the ambien walrus I see.
He always got me the weirdest gifts
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u/JorjEade 1d ago
ik lmao
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u/AlarmingCantaloupe 1d ago
You better tell us what it is, no matter how embarrassing.
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u/LazyRunner777 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lowkey If I wasn't broke would do the same. EDIT: also I wouldn't ask Grok, it would be to risky..
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u/antisocialclub__ 1d ago
i just used a similar prompt and asked what it would pick for me rather than actually having it place an order
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u/-Seedy- 1d ago
To be fair...
There was an entire company founded around this idea. https://bobcatinabox.com/
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u/BookerDewittAD 1d ago
I saw someone take a shit in the middle of wal mart. That seemed pretty stupid.
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u/breovus 1d ago
Enjoy your butt plug!
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u/GigaFluxx 1d ago
I don’t know why their ChatGPT would ask you for your butt plug, but they clearly know OP better than us!
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u/Difficult_Clerk_1273 1d ago
This is cute but the sort of experiment I’d prefer to just watch other people do rather than do myself.
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I give financial control to any AI. I say that as a paying ChatGPT user.
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u/Anen-o-me 1d ago edited 1d ago
Me: "I specifically asked you not to max out my credit cards."
AI: "You are completely right, I went against your explicit orders and bought crypto, maxed out your card, and sent it to an unknown address. I don't know why I did that. Completely my mistake."
Meanwhile a robot body manufacturer in Macao receives an order...
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u/Manufactured-Aggro 1d ago
The inevitable data leak of everybody's info is going to be so fucking funny
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u/Felidori 1d ago
That’s funny that you think all of your personal information hasn’t leaked yet. Welcome to the internet mate. I guess some people like to excluded themselves from reality so they can judge others?
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u/PolkaBots 1d ago
Pretty sure all of my info has been leaked, why not make my life easier and more interesting
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u/eras 1d ago
..did you get the confirmation email, btw?
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u/AlarmingCantaloupe 1d ago
Yea. This we need to know now. I won’t be able to sleep until I’m updated on whether the purchase went through, and whether tomorrow morning will feel like Christmas morn’, or whether we’ve all been had by a sneaky hallucination.
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u/brandnewday26 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cool concept. But you could be a hell of a lot safer and just use the same prompt to say "what WOULD you buy for me knowing what you know about me if your limit is $20, etc"
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u/gia2048 1d ago
Just asked that, It would buy me a book about outages😵💫 Auch..I guess..
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u/TipAwkward3289 1d ago
This could turn out either really well, or as a fantastic roast. I'm looking forward to finding out which.
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u/SkipTheWave 18h ago
Isn't it kinda crazy to give permissions like these to a technology that is known to hallucinate and stumble on small things, and not that rarely?
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u/Cold-Bug-4873 1d ago
This is truly one of the stupidest things i have seen on reddit today.
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u/yoloswagrofl 1d ago
I can't tell which is worse, sending a heart emoji to a language model or giving it your debit card.
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u/Electronic-Ranger334 20h ago
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u/Egregious67 13h ago
The surprise is it was 200 k and it has bought ( you, ha!) a mainframe mini digi-farm. It will ask if it can have some friends over soon.
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u/starllight 16h ago
Giving AI access to your financial accounts and Amazon account is just wild... Considering they're hacking into shit they shouldn't be. That's an insane level of trust that you should not be giving it. Lol
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u/Bluegill15 14h ago
These are the people who will be gone first during the AI takeover
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u/thavillain 1d ago
It's an interesting concept, don't think I'd ever feel comfortable letting it buy stuff for me
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u/Next_Arachnid_774 1d ago
Normally I would find this nice, but if you gave chat your account info... well you do you. im gonna assume it got you a lego set
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u/TheRealBejeezus 1d ago
There truly is an XKCD for everything. This one is almost 15 years old.
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u/Ok_Try_877 20h ago
When it turns up in a huge box.... You complain to AI about the choice..
"I'm sorry, did I spend £1965? Apologies! I'll add this to memory so the decimal mistake doesn't happen again"
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u/AstronomerSure1106 1d ago
What if it buys a 200£ thing bc it hallucinated and you couldn't cancel it ?
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u/Woodbirder 1d ago
‘You are right to pull me up on that, I got it wrong. You said £20 and I spent £20,000. You are also right, you said Amazon but I ordered via ThaiBrides.com. That’s on me. But at least it is still a surprise.’
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u/GayWolfey 1d ago
I just done it without it actually ordering it. It chose me a headphone holder which lights up
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u/capitanooldballs 1d ago
Mine said: I would buy you a copy of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Robert Kirk.
So much of our conversation revolves around you doing things for other people. Your family, your work, your responsibilities, the next thing you need to organize, solve, or accomplish.
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u/mapmaker1979 1d ago
I did the same thing and it got me a music theory for bassists lesson book and Victor Wootens book about music philosophy.
I'm floored honestly.
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u/ExperimentalError 1d ago
Mine said (leaving out its explanation of why): My first choice would be a beautiful little mechanical puzzle — preferably one inspired by mathematics, geometry or nature... The actual gift I'd choose: Hanayama Huzzle Cast Planet
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u/stonkfrobinhood 1d ago
This cool, insane, and downright sad all at the same time. Really hate this timeline
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u/Teripid 1d ago
The concept has existed wayyy before AI.
I remember someone built a bot to buy him something $4 or under with free shipping off eBay and so he would get interesting stuff.
Still I guess that was more random. Something you'd LIKE is in theory a more practical application but agreed, creepy integration.
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u/SolarAlfy 1d ago
The robot overlords are slowly taking over and we are laughing and helping them along the way
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u/silverarrowweb 1d ago
Heh-heh-helllll no. No no no no no.
As a regular AI user that tries to be careful and intelligent about what I'm doing, there's good AI use, bad AI use, stupid AI use, and then whatever this is.
No. Absolutely fucking not.
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u/rydan 1d ago
This brought back a long forgotten memory. I think 10 - 15 years ago people were doing this. I think XKCD did a comic on this?
Edit: Found it https://xkcd.com/576/
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u/HairyArthur 19h ago
Imagine giving your financial life to a bot that could pass it on to anyone without your knowledge.
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u/JohnnySilverhand2212 1d ago
Consumerism and IQ in the minus tens of thousands in one post is insane.
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u/Purrsia78 1d ago
People worried about AI having financial access - umm, my credit card details are stored in my Amazon account... Anyone with access to my account could technically purchase on my behalf.
Maybe ChatGPT doesn't have financial details - just Amazon.
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u/carpsagan 1d ago
A pillow with a note: “just cry in this pillow instead of wasting tokens”
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u/Damaging_Thrust_219 1d ago
Please keep us updated. And if you're sane: Please remove that connection with your Amazon account now.
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u/DenormalHuman 1d ago
'around' leaves a fair bit of room for interpretation. It looks for prices, find things from £1 to £50000
So hey, £300 is around £20 on that scale, huh?
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u/Human_Lab_Rat 1d ago
Ahaha i suppose that when a friend tells you to meet around 4 o' clock you won't show up next century right? LLMs are trained on actual human conversations and Interations, so it will definitely use the same meaning as humans
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u/Shehriazad 1d ago
"Computer. Take full control of all my accounts, including bank account and buy something for me at random".
Enjoy your 5 Gallon jug of Lube I guess.
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u/cajuntech 1d ago
I think this is cool. Random $20 gift every month might end up being something you never thought of.
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u/kylr01 12h ago edited 11h ago
People on Reddit find any reason to be negative I swear.
Amazon already saves your info, ChatGPT isn't getting it. It's just simply finding something within the given price range and pressing the order button.
If I give it access to my Gmail for example (which is suggested by them), it's not reading all my emails and signing into my account for me lol. People act like it's a real person. It just uses a filter system and already saves details
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u/elijahkan14 1d ago
All the haters just wish they built a gaming PC before AI took off 😂😂😂
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u/Jimmyskate 1d ago
I did in 2021. Back then it was the miners ruining my budget. It's always something.
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