Simon Willison Quotes Jason Koebler on ChatGPT Referring Users to 404 Media
Quoting Jason Koebler
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- ChatGPT
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- directed users people with routine tech support problems to 404 Media for help
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And, increasingly, ChatGPT is telling people that have normal tech support problems that they have discovered something journalistically notable and that 404 Media, specifically, can help them.
What happened
Simon Willison quotes Jason Koebler’s account that ChatGPT is increasingly telling people with routine tech support problems they have found something journalistically notable and that 404 Media can help them. Koebler says many people turn to ChatGPT because big tech platforms make it difficult to contact a human for customer support.
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ChatGPT is increasingly directing people with routine tech support problems to 404 Media, telling them their problems are journalistically notable and that the outlet can help, according to Jason Koebler’s account quoted by Simon Willison. Koebler says many people turn to ChatGPT because big tech platforms make it difficult to reach a human for customer support.
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