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‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

holy shit. if the meta-AI actually has access to the user database of whatsapp, thats a 1000x better reason to ditch whatsapp (and meta) than some ads in their shitty "stories"

[–] exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Most likely the LLM just hallucinated the number, and, given the popularity of the app, that number is also connected to WhatsApp. It's no different than sending a message to a random phone number.