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Re:WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommen... by shiandow on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:39AM (#50163041)
Well it's against the law, so presumably they were clever enough not to put it in their TOS.
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Re:WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommen... by Aerroon on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:41AM (#50164156)
How would telling the AI bot not to say something against the law?

I imagine that instruction exists so that people don't end up screenshotting the bot telling users to contact DPAs because they tortured it to say that in a conversation.

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Re:WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommen... by zombot on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:10AM (#50164480)
Thankfully laws are not being enforced when the likes of Facebook are breaking them.
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