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My description was of me as a human user of ChatGPT fwiw, not the OpenAI API.

I had it again earlier:

Me: give me a bucket policy for write access from alb

CGPT: [waffle about IP ranges that is totally incorrect; then starts telling me ALB doesn't typically write to S3 because it's usually an intermediary between clients and backend services like EC2 instances or Lambda functions - it already knows from chat context I am using the latter]

Me: [whacks stop because it's rapidly getting out of hand] yes it does for access and connection logs

CGPT: To allow Application Load Balancer (ALB) to write access and connections logs to an S3 bucket, you need to set up a bucket policy that [waffle waffle waffle]

Me: [stop] yes I know that's what I asked for

CGPT: Here is an example of an S3 bucket policy [...]

Me: invalid principal [as far as I can tell, a complete hallucination]

CGPT: [tries again]

Me: yes I already tried that, valid policy but ALB still doesn't have permission

CGPT: [nonsense intensifies]

In the end I sorted it much quicker from AWS docs, which is sort of saying something, because I do often struggle with them. Thought I'd give ChatGPT a chance here but it really wasn't helpful.



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