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Surely nothing bad will happen with an AI hooked up to the internet
Feb 16, 2023 · 8 min readUpdated Jul 26, 2026
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Microsoft recently launched its OpenAI and Bing integration—and it took fewer than seven days before it started to threaten people.
It started on February 8. The demo had only been in the wild for a few days before someone figured out a way to get it to give away its operating parameters.
There was a secret persona named “Sydney” inside Bing’s chatbot. Once people started tweeting about it, they asked Sydney how she felt about her secrets being revealed.
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