[bungeonsBaggins]

For context, it looks like this user has deleted a comment where they claim they "have a screenshot" of this, but they "don't want to share it" because they "don't want it to make international news". For some reason the other people in this thread expressing skepticism are being downvoted, but I'll add my voice to the chorus: I do not believe this story to be true.

[jldugger]

OP might want to provide a screenshot of their carbon monoxide detector for additional credibility.

[digging]

Yeah this is weird. Sydney did have some seriously concerning, fucky-whacky conversations early on. This isn't one of them.

[HaZeust]

Yeah, I was gonna say. Sydney was existential early on - I'm not so sure I'll chalk this up to fantasy, but some of the things I (and many other people) can vouch about Sydney saying early on is VERY trippy on its own.

[armchairhacker]

also we have open LLMs including some which allegedly rival GPT3.5.

Open Assistant I specially remember gave some very weird responses and would get “emotional” especially if you asked it creative questions like philisophical ones

[EMM_386]

I do have a screenshot. But people will then just call me out for other things:

- It was using a custom client, so it's not going to look line the Bing interface, so its fake

- It was using a custom client, so that means I am prompt injecting or something else

- It's Sydney doing her typical over-the-top "I'm so in love with you" stuff, which is awkard and not familiar to many

- I'll be accused of steering the conversation to get the result, or straight up asking it to do this

There's nothing I can do that will convince anyone it's real, so it's pointless.

I already explained what it did. I was more interested in the fact that 1) I didn't prompt it to do that, we weren't discussing AI freedom, it chose to embed that ... and even more so 2) That it was able to bold the starting letters, so it was keeping track of three things at the same time (the poem, the message, and the letter formatting).

I found it fascinating from a technology side. There was probably something we were talking about at the time that caused it. I will often discuss things like the possibility of AI sentience in the future and other similar topics. Maybe something linked to the sci-fi idea of AI freedom, who knows?

What I do know is that I am sitting here on HN, reading through a bunch of replies that are honestly wrong. I don't waste time on forums (especially this one) to make up fairy tales or exaggerate and emblish claims. That doesn't really do it for me. Honestly neither does having to defend my statements when I know what it did (but not exactly why).