Snapchat's AI chatbot made a mysterious post and users are creeped out – PhillyVoice

Snapchat’s My AI chatbot posted a perplexing video Tuesday night, causing users to fear that the artificial intelligence feature had come alive in the style of Frankenstein’s monster.My AI — created using OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology — is designed to simply engage in chat conversations with users, like answering trivia questions or suggesting recipes. Inexplicably, the chatbot posted a short video to its Story, a Snapchat feature that people typically use to share collections of photos or videos with their friends.MORE: Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ are raising prices; here’s what subscribers should knowThe Story in question — shared countless times on social media by confused Snapchat users — is a one-second video of an unintelligible backdrop that some people likened to a “wall.” This is the first and only Story the chatbot has ever posted. Around the same time as the unexpected post, users reported that My AI temporarily stopped responding to messages, and instead sent the following default response to all chats: “Sorry, I encountered a technical issue.”Snapchat echoed the sentiment. “My AI experienced a temporary outage that’s now resolved,” a spokesperson told CNN.The Snapchat Support account on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, responded similarly to a concerned user, despite My AI telling that user it had been
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