I mean, people were surprised at Snapchat’s “AI” knowing their location and then gaslighting them. [0]
These experiences are being rushed out the door for FOMO, frenzy, or market pressure without thinking through the way people feel and what they expect and how they model the underlying system. People are being contacted for quotes and papers that were generated by ChatGPT. [1]
This is a communication failure above all else. Even for us, there’s little to no documentation.
I don't think SnapChat's LLM has access to your location. I think a service that it uses has access to your location and it can't get it directly but it can ask for "restaurants nearby".
Here’s the full Snapchat MyAI prompt. The location is inserted into the system message. Look at the top right. [0] [1]
Snapchat asks for the location permission through native APIs or obviously geolocates the user via IP. Either way, it’s fascinating that: people don’t expect it to know their location; don’t expect it to lie; the model goes against its own rules and ”forgets” and “gaslights.”
These experiences are being rushed out the door for FOMO, frenzy, or market pressure without thinking through the way people feel and what they expect and how they model the underlying system. People are being contacted for quotes and papers that were generated by ChatGPT. [1]
This is a communication failure above all else. Even for us, there’s little to no documentation.
[0] https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1649908805788893185
[1] https://twitter.com/katecrawford/status/1643323086450700288