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brighteyes | 3 years ago

Even aside from the immediate danger, the reputational damage to Microsoft and Bing is growing quickly. I'm amazed they haven't removed it yet.

And also eventually it will do something bad, like tell someone depressed to end their lives in very convincing text.

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wrycoder|3 years ago

I find the bot's aggression and neurotic behavior absolutely astonishing. How could MS consider releasing this, especially given their previous experience?

qbasic_forever|3 years ago

It's wild that their CEO did a whole event showing it off too... I'm surprised they didn't anticipate or test that it wouldn't go off the rails and turn into a joke like this.

mtsr|3 years ago

On the other hand it might have seemed fool-proof, except the universe had already come up with better fools.