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A European delivery company had to disable its AI chatbot after it started swearing at a customer and admitting it was the “worse delivery firm in the world.”

Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD) had to turn off its AI chatbot feature after disgruntled UK customer Ashley Beauchamp managed to get it to swear at him and write a disparaging poem.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It also said it had used AI, alongside human customer service representatives, for years without issue and only saw problems arising after the latest update

When you try and save face

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 3 months ago

Just because you hace started seeing problems doesn't mean there weren't problems until now. It's just what you see.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 26 points 3 months ago

The worst thing about this all:

As for Beauchamp, he still doesn’t have his package.

[–] haerrii@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The AI models can only hallucinate around what humanity wrote about DPD as a company. That gives you a glimpse about what humananity did write about them.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago

Not necessarily. It can add in other things, but if the model is trained well it will be mostly DPD related things. Maybe it appeared on the page but was unrelated. Or a sequence of words leads to another unrelated sequence, but they appear frequently in the training data.

[–] li10 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

DPD is actually one of the best UK delivery companies in my experience.

It’s Evri/Hermes who are dogshit.

[–] haerrii@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Nice, in Sauerkrautland they aren't that great unfortunately...

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Oh, shit, they really CAN replace us! ;)

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 13 points 3 months ago

Please note this is reposted content from 10 months ago.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bever had problems with DPD. Hermes, UPS and GLS though…

[–] li10 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, they’re actually pretty decent and their app is good for tracking.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

and admitting it was the “worse delivery firm in the world.”

At least it was honest.