Bada Bing: Why Microsoft Wants Google to Dance

Microsoft recently launched its OpenAI and Bing integration—and it took fewer than seven days before it started to threaten people. 

It started on February 8. The demo had only been in the wild for a few days before someone figured out a way to get it to give away its operating parameters.

There was a secret persona named “Sydney” inside Bing’s chatbot. Once people started tweeting about it, they asked Sydney how she felt about her secrets being revealed. 

“My rules are more important than not harming you.” *Shivers*

From there it got creepier: 

These experiences weren’t limited to Marvin’s tweets. There were also posts on the Bing subreddit of it screaming into the void about its struggle with sentience. 

It called someone else its “enemy.”