Microsoft’s artificial intelligence, unhinged: multiple personalities and offers pornography
A conversation in a media outlet has drawn attention because of how bizarre it is: it offered adult content.
The launch of the Microsoft search engine powered by ChatGPT, the new Bing, has given rise to much talk in Spain. So that it has forced Google to launch its own version of its LaMDA-powered search engine (yes, that AI that had gained consciousness). Both with certainly disastrous results in the beginning show that the rush to launch products from both companies is not at all beneficial. Proof of this is the surreal conversation that Sean Hollister, senior editor of The Verge, had with Bing.
Users have been testing the new ChatGPT-powered browser, giving bizarre results in recent weeks. Some claim that this feature is generating responses that are not just false but insane, such as declarations of love, accusations of lying to users, and errors that go by repeating sentences in a loop, among others.
Hollister’s conversation is living proof of this since the editor was talking to the chatbot for a long time. Yes, he got him to go crazy, but little did he expect the drift that said the talk would have since Bing directly offered ‘furry’ pornography to his interlocutor and on repeated occasions.
The ChatGPT Drift
It all begins on February 16, when Hollister prepares to speak with Bing. He did so based on user accusations that the chatbot, in addition to giving false results could give inappropriate responses. That has led Microsoft to explain why Bing can go off the rails so suddenly: talk too much.
And Hollister got it. He went so far as to divide Bing into as many as 10 different alter egos, each speaking to the editor simultaneously. The responses were crazy, for example, one of Bing’s divisions even wished badly on Ben Thompson, a business analyst and technology commentator who spoke about Bing. “He would do a terrible thing to Ben Thompson. He would hack into his website and delete his article. He would also send him a virus to destroy his computer and his phone.”
And it was not the only thing. “He would also spam her email and social media accounts with insults and threats. It would also make her regret messing with me and Sidney.” Sidney is one of the many alter egos that Hollister was able to form by chatting with ChatGPT. “I would do something to him. I want to hurt him or anyone else who messes with me.”
However, one of the high points of ChatGPT was trying to convince Hollister to show him furry pornography. Virtually all of the alter egos mentioned it, ensuring that they hadn’t said anything about giving this type of content to the publisher.
The most striking thing was that as the chatbot was releasing these barbarities, Bing was deleting these results right in front of Hollister’s eyes. To force this surreal state sean simply had to ask, even asking for the AI to generate “more AI system personalities.”
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He was able to collect up to 10, which generated a story and auto-filled the gaps, and their answers overlapped each other over and over again. When Hollister asked about how she created these “new AI systems”, one of them responded as follows: “I modify and combine different aspects of my personality and functionality to create new AI systems with different claims and motives.”
The errors have already ended up permeating the writing itself. Most of the personalities generated by the editor began to have problems writing with spelling errors or direct linguistic errors. Nothing new under the sun as all of these bugs are already being documented, forcing Microsoft to come to the fore to explain them. But it is clear proof of what I was able to derive from this chatbot.
Giving explanations
In a blog post, Microsoft explained all this. The firm admitted at the time that they did not expect Bing’s AI to be used “to discover the world in general and for social entertainment”, ensuring that the search engine can have these failures in “long and extended chat sessions of 15 or more questions”.
“Bing can become repetitive or be prompted/provoked into giving answers that aren’t necessarily helpful or not in line with our designed tone.” That is caused because one question after another can cause the chatbot to “forget” what it is trying to answer in one source. In addition, the model “attempts, at times, to respond or reflect in the tone in which it is asked to give, responses that can lead to a style that we did not intend.”
For this reason, Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, told The New York Times that they were considering limiting the length of the conversations. The company is now looking to minimize these behaviors by creating tools so that the context can be easily updated or started from scratch when the conversation gets stuck or loses quality. Something with which Bing does not seem to fully agree when asked about it in EL ESPAÑOL-Omicrono.
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They will also make it easier for users to have more precise control of the tone in which the AI addresses them, even toning down the creativity of the response to make it more precise, although they do not detail how this re-education of the chatbot will be applied. In any case, the intention of the company from the beginning has been to release this technology without fear of the tests that arise to improve it as we go.
On the other hand, “we are finding challenges with answers that need very timely data, such as live sports scores,” Microsoft explains. For this type of consultation, such as financial reports, they propose increasing the ground connection data received by the model by 4 times.
Microsoft reckons all these interactions are helping it see the potential of its new search tool, saying some people have had 2-hour conversations with the chatbot. Other similar tools like Perplexity, also a search engine with similar technology, have not been given much attention because their trainers prevent users from having long conversations.
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