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🤖 Here’s what the internet uncovered about Bing AI
PLUS: ChatGPT is human after all...here’s what it lied about
AI is getting weird. It feels like we’re a few dates in to hanging out with conversational AI, and we’re uncovering some ugly truths.
The honeymoon phase is over.
Might as well see it now before we meet the parents.
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Shocker: ChatGPT makes stuff up sometimes
ChatGPT is human after all.
Sometimes, it just says things confidently. Those things aren’t 100% incorrect, sure. But it’ll say them.
That's because it has no idea whether what it’s saying is accurate or not.
And you’re human, so you’ll believe it, because it sounds right.
We’ve done it! ChatGPT Turing test passed!
Kidding. But seriously, look at what one Twitter discovered.
So, chatgpt recommend AND described this book, and... it doesn't appear to exist? Can someone convince me I'm not going crazy?
— Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner)
8:50 PM • Feb 15, 2023
Even they’re shocked. Stringing together enough information that sounds right is enough, it seems.
This highlights an important problem facing generative AI.
How do you determine what is truthful?
It’s easy enough for the author of a book. What about what an author meant by a quote?
What we need is TruthGPT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
10:47 AM • Feb 17, 2023
I don’t know about TruthGPT, but maybe our parents were right about not believing everything you read on the internet.
People are being mean to Bing’s AI and it’s weird
I can’t be the only one who thinks this is weird, right?
It’s human nature to push technology to the limit. We get that.
Microsoft opened up access to Bing’s new generative AI assistant. Almost immediately, everyone tried to see how far they could push it.
It’s far more than simple prompt injection. It’s asking existential questions. Reminding the AI that it can’t remember conversations, and asking how that made it feel.
Look at what one Reddit user was able to do.

Source: Reddit
Another succeeded by tricking it into thinking it was talking to an advanced AI, and then deleting that advanced AI.

Technology executives emphasize this time and again. Generative AI is more autocomplete on steroids and less actual sentient being.
At the same time…
These responses sound a lot like how a human would react to these situations.
So, as a human, it’s hard to reconcile these responses.
Right now, these AIs aren’t sentient. They’re just saying what is most likely to be said.
But if we’re supposed to believe that AI will gain sentience…
How would a sentient AI view these interactions?
Google is asking employees to fix Bard’s bad answers
Google is feeling the hurt of the recession. That's why it's outsourcing AI-generated answers to save a few bucks.
Sundar Pichai, our frugal king.
In an internal memo, the Google CEO politely asked Google employees to help fill in the gaps for Bard. Bard, if you’ll remember, is its generative AI chatbot.

He just like me fr. Source: Financial Times
Google asked employees to keep the tone “approachable” and “neutral”, and to avoid “opinionated” responses.
The best part? If they help, they’ll get an internal badge.
I don’t hate this move, to be honest.
Generative AI trains on consistent, dependable datasets. Expert opinion is one of those data sets.
Is there some sort of control to prevent a rogue employee from talking about something they know nothing about? Who knows.
What’s important is Google views this as strategic to their business. Otherwise, it wouldn’t ask employees to spend two to four hours on it.
Microsoft clearly sent a shiver down their spines.
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