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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” — Simon Willison’s Weblog

By TechTaffy Desk

This blog post is a pretty good summation of the AI-powered Bing acting like a petulant human. A search engine wants to harm a human being; wait, what?

Of course, there is no sentience here, but language models that need more and perhaps better training.

Here is the link: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

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