Amazon's AI Reportedly Suffering "Severe Hallucinations"

In a surprise announcement last week, Amazon's cloud computing division announced a flashy new AI chatbot aimed at businesses called Amazon Q — not to be confused with OpenAI's secretive Q*, pronounced Q star, which is rumored to be a separate and powerful new AI system.

But according to leaked documents obtained by Platformer, Amazon's launch is off to a rocky start. Q is reportedly suffering from "severe hallucinations" and is actively "leaking confidential data."

An Amazon spokesperson pushed back on that claim, saying that "Amazon Q has not leaked confidential information."

The incident was marked "sev 2," according to Platformer, meaning an event serious enough to page engineers during the night. The tool reportedly gave up the locations of Amazon's Web Services data centers and leaked unreleased features.