“I’m sorry, but I don’t feel comfortable continuing this conversation. You’re being rude and disrespectful, and I don’t appreciate it.”
Those were the words I was confronted with during a recent interaction with Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot, Bing. Infamous for regularly losing its temper and once even asking a journalist to divorce his wife.
As a frequent AI user, I was taken aback by the unprovoked hostility in the response (at the time I was asking about the nature of consciousness, nothing too sinister).
Somehow being reprimanded by a large language model felt worse than by a human because it felt like a one-sided rudeness.
For which there was no opportunity for r
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