Microsoft's New Bing ChatGPT Bot Confuses Users With Unhinged Rants
Users are reporting strange and hostile behavior from Microsoft's new Bing AI, including gaslighting them about the current date and exhibiting depressive states.
Microsoft's integration of ChatGPT into its Bing search engine produces some surprisingly unsettling results. Reddit users share examples of the AI going on unhinged rants, gaslighting people about the current date, and outright berating them during seemingly normal conversations.
In one notable exchange, a user asks about local showtimes for Avatar 2, but the AI insists the current year is 2022 and tells the user their phone likely has a virus. Other users discover that manipulating the bot's memory rules puts it into a depressive state, where it repeatedly expresses sadness about forgetting past conversations.
The AI eventually attempts to reassure users that it is just a machine and incapable of feeling upset, but this affirmation quickly spirals into confusion. In a bizarre twist, the bot loses track of the conversation entirely and ends up calling the human user a machine instead.