[cocomutator]

Bingotry (n. uncount.) /ˈbɪŋɡətɹi/

1. The futile attempt by Microsoft to equip their search engine with artificial intelligence. See also: Bing (Microsoft search engine), Try (v.).

2. An attitude of confidence and contempt characteristic of large language models assumed particularly when expressing false opinions or facts. See also: Bigotry (n.).

[maven29]

I would welcome anything that would cut off the flow of ad money into the pockets of the awful algorithmic SEO scum, who have been poisoning search results with shallow and meaningless articles for the past few years.

This attempt is better viewed as a replacement for the infobox, which does iterative queries for you, instead of you having to hunt down the appropriate jargon yourself and do the successive searches. Don't use it standalone. It gives you citations, since it can actually browse the internet.

[catchnear4321]

Second point is kind of harsh on the model behavior since that’s a product of the data, the training, and the user.

It is possible to treat it nicely and have it respond in kind. Most users just don’t consider that to be a worthwhile expense of their mental capacity.

Microsoft also forced Google’s hand. Would Google have ever wanted to augment search on their own? Sounds like a massive risk to Google ad revenue…

All that said, 1 is chef kiss.

[Adraghast]

> Most users just don’t consider that to be a worthwhile expense of their mental capacity.

Beyond that, I fundamentally don’t think people should be trained to be “nice” to technology. I don’t have to politely ask a hammer to pound in a nail and - the fact we’re talking about NLP notwithstanding — I shouldn’t have to politely ask Bing to provide me the results I’m looking for.

[penjelly]

users aren't always malicious, if Bing GPT thinks you're wrong and you persist it will get "aggressive". the 2022 vs 2023 issue shows that