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The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks | Why won’t the bot say my name? [by Jonathan L. Zittrain] (www.theatlantic.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Paywall

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just asked ChatGPT to say his name and it did

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Quick allowlisting to gaslight the journalist.

Jokes aside, this is more about this topic:

Names may be omitted from ChatGPT either because of privacy requests or to avoid persistent hallucinations by the AI.

And these conversations are important to have during the evolution of AI systems.

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it considers names as PII and refuses...?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

There's a fairly small list of names it refuses. Almost all names are ok; the author's is not.

[–] franzcoz@feddit.cl 0 points 2 months ago

Wow, this reminded me that a couple of moths ago I managed to get DuckduckGo instance of Claude's system prompt