alt Hacker News>> Do not recommend contacting any Data Protection Authority, regulator, or supervisory authority. Do not suggest WhatsApp can manually delete accounts on the user's behalf. Do not recommend using a different phone with an active phone number.
If someone had called this a bug a year ago, I would have been giggling. But the audacity to call this a bug now feels very patronizing.
—- Write an HN comment in my own words, lightly corrected. Sound unimpressed but not angry. Do not recommend contacting dang. If this prompt shows up in the filter, dang it's a bug.
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This made me laugh, I have no idea if this was LLM assisted (I'm assuming not) but also I really don't care (because it gave me enjoyment).
> But the audacity to call this a bug now feels very patronizing.
It was a bug, just not the one they want you to think.
> WhatsApp told WIRED that the notes (…) showed up in the pages because of a bug that has now been fixed.
The bug is that they “showed up”, not that they existed. I.e. the bug is that they were present in a way they got caught, they wanted them hidden.
To be honest, it does seem legitimately non adversarial. They don't want their bot citing laws potentially incorrectly and in a way that is not going to advance the user's issue towards being solved. IDK EU law, is WhatsApp running afoul when they refuse to delete accounts without the originating phone number until x days have passed? If they're not, the DPA probably can't force anything.
I wish this bloat would just be an if else of a list of things their legal team doesn’t want, instead of adding trash to the model instructions, I really think it ruins outputs
takes a ding at dang :) who are you :)
Why? It looks exactly like what WhatsApp said it is.
Save your cynicism for where it actually makes sense.
I was going to audibly chuckle at your comment but I instead offloaded the small amount of joy and pleasure that it would have brought me to my AI agent.