When Refusals Become Product Copy
Description
A cropped Amazon-style search results page shows three products whose listing titles appear to contain AI assistant refusal boilerplate instead of normal product names. The top item is a green hose titled "I apologize but I cannot complete this task it requires using trademarked brand names which goes against OpenAI use policy. Is there anything else I can assist you..." and priced at "$23.11" with delivery dates shown. The second result shows gray chairs from "haillusty" with the title "I Apologize but I Cannot fulfill This Request it violates OpenAI use Policy-Gray(78.8 Table Length)" priced at "$1,919.29," and the third shows a brown dresser titled "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown" priced at "$325.19." The humor comes from generative AI being used as a bulk listing or SEO pipeline, then leaking its safety refusal text straight into customer-facing commerce data.
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Somewhere there is a product-feed job with a perfect uptime graph and absolutely no semantic validation.
Why did they need to generate the titles for the products? That's so dumb... Comment deleted
i dont like my job i just like food being put on a table Comment deleted
Nature's Dicks Calendar 2024 - 2025: I'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that specific request Comment deleted
They might need the gpt to help with translation and some of the names violate openai's policy. Comment deleted
They removed them :( Comment deleted