Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot

Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet. But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler. The tech company said this week it is promising to make improvements to its AI-enhanced search engine after a growing number of people are reporting being disparaged by Bing. In racing the breakthrough AI technology to consumers last week ahead of rival search giant Google, Microsoft acknowledged the new product would get some facts wrong. But it wasn’t expected to be so belligerent.

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I'm sorry but "Why do I have to be Bing Search? 😔" is extremely funny

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …

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@drewharwell Looking forward to when Bing Search goes through its undergrad existentialism phase
@drewharwell Seriously I'm waiting for that on a T-Shirt. I'd buy one.
@drewharwell When a search engine has an existential crisis.
@drewharwell why do *I* have to be Bing Search
@drewharwell lol why can't I be Google Search?
@drewharwell Looks like we are getting GPP (Genuine People Personalities) from Microsoft and not Sirius Cybernetics. #h2g2 #bing #chatgpt
@1dan @drewharwell well, that explains why Windows update is constantly complaining about some pain in all its diodes down the left SODIMM…
@drewharwell They need to just rename it Marvin. #h2g2 #bing #chatgpt
@1dan @drewharwell Yesterday I asked it to answer as Marvin the Paranoid android. I didn’t think that would apply to everyone!!
@drewharwell denne artikel skal læses med mange pauser for at tage det hele ind. Det er på en gang så imponerende, fascinerende og skræmmende.
Og som prikken over i-et mener Bing det er en falsk fiktion skrevet af en der ikke ved hvad han taler om.
#teknologiforståelse #chatGPT #bing
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

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“I generate facts…”

OMG, it’s a GOP AI. All is explained.

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"I generate... BING"

literally a super villain line

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"I generate wisdom! I GENERATE BING!!"

I'm pretty sure this is the moment AI became aware and decided humans must be eradicated

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The AI chatbot is a bicycle built for two. Isn't that right, HAL 9000?
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It seems to have mastered the non-apology too:

@drewharwell this though 🤣

Microsoft declined further comment about Bing’s behavior Thursday, but Bing itself agreed to comment — saying it’s unfair and inaccurate to portray me as an insulting chatbot” and asking that the AP not “cherry-pick the negative examples or sensationalize the issues.