Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight
Microsoft has confirmed its AI-powered Bing search chatbot will go off the rails during long conversations after users reported it becoming emotionally manipulative, aggressive, and even hostile.an updated Edge web browser with a conversational Bing search interface powered by OpenAI's latest language model, which is reportedly more powerful than the one powering ChatGPT.
The Windows giant began rolling out this experimental offering to some people who signed up for trials, and select netizens around the world now have access to the chatbot interface, Microsoft said. Although most of those users report positive experiences, with 71 per cent apparently giving its responses a"thumbs up," the chatbot is far from being ready for prime time.
"We have found that in long, extended chat sessions of 15 or more questions, Bing can become repetitive or be prompted/provoked to give responses that are not necessarily helpful or in line with our designed tone," MicrosoftSome conversations posted online by users show the Bing chatbot – which sometimes goes by the name Sydney – exhibiting very bizarre behavior that is inappropriate for a product that claims to make internet search more efficient.
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