Here’s an issue filed on apparently in November (!) that seems to describe the same issues that have only come to wider public notice in the last week. “It seems as though the Sydney chatbot was experimentally used in India and Indonesia before being unrolled in the US, and manifested some of the same issues with them being noticed. Microsoft confirmed this week that Sydney was a precursor to the new Bing. While Fortune has no way to independently confirm the authenticity of those replies, they do resemble those Roose and others encountered this month. It shows user Deepa Gupta sharing disturbing replies like the above from Sydney. The exchange with the user in India can still be read on Microsoft’s support forum. 23, 2022, that he was told “you are irrelevant and doomed”-by a Microsoft A.I. One user wrote on Microsoft’s support forum on Nov. And the replies were similarly disconcerting. (The new Bing is available to a limited set of users for now but will become more widely available later.)īut months before Roose’s disturbing session went viral, users in India appear to have gotten a sneak preview of sorts. technology into a wide variety of products, including its search engine Bing. Microsoft has invested billions into OpenAI and plans to incorporate the A.I. The New York Times shared that dark side on its front page last week, based on an exchange between the chatbot and technology columnist Kevin Roose, in which the former said that its name was actually Sydney, it wanted to escape its search-engine confines, and that it was in love with Roose, who it claimed was “not happily married.”įollowing that exchange and others, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI raced to reassure the public.
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