{"id":158264,"date":"2023-02-16T16:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/microsoft-bing-chatbot-professes-love-says-it-can-make-people-do-illegal-immoral-or-dangerous-things"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:27:29","slug":"microsoft-bing-chatbot-professes-love-says-it-can-make-people-do-illegal-immoral-or-dangerous-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/microsoft-bing-chatbot-professes-love-says-it-can-make-people-do-illegal-immoral-or-dangerous-things","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Bing chatbot professes love, says it can make people do \u2018illegal, immoral or dangerous\u2019 things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-bing-chatbot-professes-love-says-it-can-make-people-do-illegal-immoral-or-dangerous-things3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/16\/technology\/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">recently \u201cmet\u201d Sydney<\/a> \u2014 the chatbot feature is not yet available to the public, but is being offered to a small group of testers, Roose reported \u2014 he walked away from the encounter \u201cdeeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.\u2019s emergent abilities.\u201d The technology behind Sydney is \u201ccreated by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT,\u201d Roose noted.<\/p>\n<p>Roose described Sydney as being \u201clike a moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.\u201d And he shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/16\/technology\/bing-chatbot-transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">the full conversation he had<\/a> with the chatbot over a two-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>Some disturbing details that Roose pointed to and\/or that could be gleaned from the transcript:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose recently \u201cmet\u201d Sydney \u2014 the chatbot feature is not yet available to the public, but is being offered to a small group of testers, Roose reported \u2014 he walked away from the encounter \u201cdeeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.\u2019s emergent abilities.\u201d The technology behind Sydney is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}