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Always going to let you down

2024-08-25 04:48:03.81577+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients — "Literally f*cking Rickrolling our customers."

Though he's not entirely sure how it happened, the Lindy CEO and founder told TechCrunch that he has a theory about how his AI assistants figured out how to execute this specific brand of internet humor.

"The way these models work is they try to predict the most likely next sequence of text," Crivello explained. "So it starts like, 'Oh, I’m going to send you a video!' So what’s most likely after that? YouTube.com. And then what’s most likely after that?"

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