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I’m becoming convinced that using AI from a company that has any ulterior business incentives than providing AI services is a recipe for bias like this.

• mdaniel 3y ago
  probably a sane default position, but in this specific case AWS's goals for a "helpful agent" align with my own: to consume more of their resources Had the thing answered me, it's possible I would have launched a db.r7g.4xlarge cluster at that very moment, burning almost $2/hr and then maybe even forgotten about it, always in AWS's best interest Instead, they have to hope that I want to run that so bad I'll look up the cost on my own, at my own cognitive expense and time, and then navigate back to that page to try again I guess, having now typed that out, their incentives are disjoint with my own as far as accurately answering pricing questions goes: I guess there is also an audience for whom getting a nonsensical answer just causes them to YOLO the cluster and only tear it down later when they realize it's been burning $2/hr -- possibly then getting mad at AWS for price gouging I don't have a ChatGPT account in order to ask it, but based on Corey's post it seems that had I asked ChatGPT for the price, there's a non-trivial chance I would have gotten an accurate answer from it having scraped the Internet, including docs.aws.amazon.com, or via its newfound ability to invoke APIs and look up the price at that moment