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‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by letraset@feddit.dk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] letraset@feddit.dk 49 points 3 weeks ago

Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was nowhere to be seen, he asked Meta’s WhatsApp AI assistant for a contact number for TransPennine Express. The chatbot confidently sent him a mobile phone number for customer services, but it turned out to be the private number of a completely unconnected WhatsApp user 170 miles away in Oxfordshire.

Ah yes, what else to expect from »the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use«.