- Published on December 5, 2023
- In AI Features
Why Amazon Q Deserves Another Chance
Amazon Q hasn’t been released yet, and criticisms are already mounting.
Image by Nikhil Kumar
- By Siddharth Jindal
At re:Invent, amid much fanfare, AWS introduced Amazon Q, a generative AI chatbot specifically designed for businesses. The company claimed that unlike OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it is much safer and more secure. However, contrary to these assertions, Amazon Q has come under the searchlights for all the wrong reasons.
Barely three days after the launch, concerns began to rise among employees regarding accuracy and privacy of the chatbot. Q is reportedly "suffering from significant hallucinations" and has been implicated in leaking sensitive data, such as the locations of AWS data centres, internal discount programs, and unreleased features.
Undoubtedly, Amazon quickly released a statement that said, “No security issue was identified as a result of that feedback. We appreciate all of t
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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