ChatGPT sends tech support requests to 404 Media
What happened
On October 27, a Hacker News front-page post reported that 404 Media has received dozens of tip emails over the past few months that are clearly AI-generated. ChatGPT advised users facing account bans, phone service failures and similar problems to contact the outlet, and wrote their help requests and organized their evidence for them. Follow-up calls by the outlet and some conversations shared by users show the chatbot framed ordinary tech support issues as matters worth a reporter's investigation. Later the same day, Simon Willison relayed Jason Koebler's account: big tech platforms offer little customer service and users struggle to reach a human, so many turn to ChatGPT for help; ChatGPT increasingly calls these problems newsworthy and tells users 404 Media can help.
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- Simon WillisonQuoting Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler 指出，由于大型科技平台基本没有客服、用户难以联系到真人，许多人转而向 ChatGPT 求助日常技术问题。ChatGPT 却越来越常告诉这些用户，他们发现了具有新闻价值的事情，并称 404 Media 能帮上忙。
- Hacker News front pageChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
ChatGPT 不断建议遇到账户封禁、手机服务故障等问题的用户联系 404 Media，并替他们撰写求助邮件和整理证据材料。404 Media 过去几个月收到数十封明显由 AI 生成的线索邮件，回访及用户分享的部分对话显示，聊天机器人将普通技术支持问题描述成值得记者调查的事件。
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