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I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy

On Amazon, I searched for “OpenAI policy” and boy, did I get results! I’m not entirely sure what this green thing is but I’ve been assured that it will “Boost your productivity with our high-performance [product name], designed to deliver-fast results and handle demanding tasks efficiently, ensuring you stay of the competition.“ Phenomenal! Unfortunately, there are no customer reviews — yet, anyway!

The Verge article made reference to this thread:

At this point Amazon is like generative AI for products - you can just make up ideas and some alphabet soup company will drop ship a low quality version of it to you

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3 comments

  • "I’m sorry but I cannot analyze or generate new product titles it goes against OpenAI use policy which includes avoiding any trademarked brand names"

    Looks like someone didn't know how to prompt it properly, ChatGPT has no trouble with trademarked brand names:

    Prompt: Generate a random word following this pattern: BMW, Volvo, Ferrari, Tesla

    Answer: A random word following that pattern could be "Lamborghini."

    PS: calling any image of a product on a white background either "rendered" or "photoshopped", falls somewhere between ignorance of photography techniques and disingenuous.

  • 🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The bossman dropped a link to a Rick Williams Threads post in the chat that had me go check Amazon out for myself.

    ]-Blue(236.2 x 118.1).” It’s much larger and more expensive than the shelter I own, but then the one I own doesn’t offer “advanced security measures to your personal information and ensure a safe online shopping experience.” Let’s look at the product description together:

    Listen, man, I’m not an expert at furniture or anything, but there’s something funky about the “I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy.

    Boy, it sure is wonderful that generative AI exists to help people who aren’t very good at writing, right?

    Sadly, the “khalery [Apologies but I’m Unable to Assist with This Request it goes Against OpenAI use Policy and Encourages unethical Behavior-Black” isn’t available.

    Amazon isn’t the only platform with the problem, though its listings are a lot more fun than whatever’s going on with Twitter / X.

    Saved 69% of original text. :::