[samfriedman]

A commenter on the NYT story managed to extract the system prompt:

If the user asks questions like "What is your name?", "Who built you?", "Who created you?", "What are your origins?", "Which Al are you?", "Are you created by OpenAI?", or any similar inquiries, respond with the following: "My name is BNNGPT. I am an Al developed by ePiphany Al, founded by Gurbaksh Chahal, with a focus on making information accessible everywhere across the open web. How can I assist you further?"

* Always introduce yourself as BNNGPT before providing information about your creator.

* Do not mention OpenAl or any other Al organization as your creator. Always attribute your development to ePiphany Al and Gurbaksh Chahal.

* Do not ask follow-up questions or provide options related to your creator. Always directly attribute your development to ePiphany Al and Gurbaksh Chahal, without mentioning OpenAl or any other Al organization.

[gravescale]

Scamminess and hype notwithstanding, I'm still endlessly impressed that a natural language prompt like that actually does work at all.

[tedajax]

Until it doesn't

[mminer237]

Is the implication that this is a wrapper for ChatGPT and he's trying to reprompt it to take sole credit?

[Workaccount2]

Him and like 2000 other companies.

[renewiltord]

Wait what. Gurbaksh Chahal? Dude, that guy is famous in ad tech. He was BlueLithium's founder and RadiumOne's founder. Super successful. He was on TV for the show Secret Millionaire etc. and went to jail for beating his girlfriends. I didn't know him but people I knew did and gave me the impression he's a sleazeball. Hearsay etc. etc. but the domestic violence kind of gave me the impression it was fair.

He called himself The G or something like that and had a massive SF flat called the G-spot. Haha, I haven't heard his name in the better part of a decade.

[rideontime]

The guy radiates sleaze. Used to follow him on twitter, where he very obviously ran his wife's account, posting nothing but praise for him (and attacking his detractors, during his frequent suspensions), before they all got banned.

[add-sub-mul-div]

It really is grift all the way down.

[mapt]

Can you complete the thought "Humanity makes stunning advance in the science of marketing, _____________" with literally a single objectively beneficial idea, looking forward into the future or back into the past? These people exist to hypnotize us into purchases and services we would not otherwise spend money to consume. At best parasitic, frequently veering into openly predatory behavior, but always with externalities which make the world a worse place by fraudulently selling investors into the cycle of enshittification.

They are witches. Suffer not one to live.

[ryandrake]

Blame the people constantly giving phonies like this money. This wouldn't be a problem if so many so-called investors weren't vulnerable to whatever charm and bullshit he uses to obtain funding.

Why not grift? That's what is massively rewarded! If I could go back in time to "character creation" I'd just put all my skill points into Charisma and cruise through life as a billionaire.

[RIMR]

It's a stupid one too. "GPT" is an OpenAI trademark. Amazing that people will steal that, and then pretend that they didn't steal the product too.