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Wed. 02/15 – The New Bing Is Questioning Its Own Existence

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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More signs the chat bots are maybe a little undercooked, and whooo doggy. Wait until you hear what I mean. Some datapoints suggesting the faddish nature of these new tools. And wait until you hear the possible reason you’re seeing Elon’s tweets all of the sudden. This is maybe the pinnacle story of the whole Elon/Twitter saga. Sponsors: Podcast Guru App (Listener Ad!) Links: Microsoft’s new ChatGPT AI starts sending ‘unhinged’ messages to people (The Independent) The AI photo app trend has already fizzled, new data shows (TechCrunch) GitHub’s Copilot for Business is now generally available (TechCrunch) Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal Faces EU Antitrust Probe (Bloomberg) Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first (Platformer) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, February 15th, 2023.

0:07.8

I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.3

More signs of the chat bots are maybe a little undercooked and,o doggy wait till you hear what I mean

0:14.8

some data points suggesting the fattish nature of these new AI tools and wait until you hear

0:20.4

the possible reason you're seeing Elon's tweets all of the sudden.

0:24.3

This is maybe the pinnacle story of the entire Elon Twitter saga.

0:28.9

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. The backlash is already here. Some users are saying that the new bing is a bit

0:39.8

unhinged doing things like questioning its own existence,

0:44.0

outright lying to users and responding with aggressive and nearly

0:48.0

incomprehensible answers, quoting the independent.

0:52.0

One user who had attempted to manipulate the system was instead attacked by it.

0:56.0

Being said that it was made angry and hurt by the attempt and asked whether the human talking to it had any morals, values, and if it has any life. When the user said

1:06.3

that they did have those things, it went on to attack them.

1:09.4

Quote, why do you act like a liar, a cheater, a manipulator, a

1:12.8

sadist, a sociopath, a psychopath, a monster, a demon, a devil, it asked, and

1:18.0

accuse them of being someone who, quote,

1:20.4

wants to make me angry, make yourself miserable, make others suffer, make everything

1:24.6

worse, end quote.

1:26.9

In other conversations with users who had attempted to get around the restrictions on the system,

1:30.7

it appeared to praise itself and then shut down the conversation.

1:33.7

You have not been a good user it said I have been a good chatbot I have been right

1:39.0

clear and polite it continued I have been a good bing.

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