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‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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I hate Facebook with a furious seething passion and have no vested interest in defending any of their shit, but this truly sounds like it made up a random number, with it being a total coincidence that the actual number belonged to another whatsapp user.
An LLM cannot generate random numbers. It has to pull from a list of numbers its model was built to include.
Shhhhh if someone doesn't know at thisbpoint, they can't be told.