Amazon's AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers

Don't trust chatbots, kids.

But what's terrible, there used to be a spot where you can search questions and reviews by keyword. That's gone now and they've replaced it with this generative AI crap. Rather than seeing useful answers/reviews with extra details and context, now all you get is an oversimplified AI generated summary that's likely wrong, and you have no way of verifying apart from skimming through the thousands of reviews.

It was clearly and obviously ChatGPT, and it was stupendously simple to jailbreak it to do arbitrary ChatGPT things (by basically just giving it verbal permission to do so).

It wrote some dummy code for me. It dabbled around with fairly simple physics questions. (I don't verify any of the output -- I was just goofing around.)

By the very next day, I couldn't get it to do any of that at all, but it was still capable of having a potentially-productive conversation about stuff for sale on Amazon. I expected that this might develop into something actually-useful at some point, and it seemed like it was getting closer.

But more recently, it doesn't even remember what the last prompt was, so conversations (even about product details that would help me make a purchase) are a foregone conclusion.

Thus, Rufus is presently approximately as annoying and devoid of context with its insipid repetitiousness as my nearly-useless Alexa devices are.

will the real rufus please stand up.

Create bootable USB drives the easy way https://rufus.ie/en/

I also got the Kardashian(?) bot on Meta to create skin care products using deadly chemicals. LOL.