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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by nimbius on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:07PM (#34806985)
friendly reminder, this is from the same company whos prior AI, "Tay" managed to go from quirky teen to full on white nationalist during the first release in under a day and in 2016 she reappeared as a drug addled scofflaw after being accidentally reactivated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by chasd00 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:41PM (#34807542)
wow! I never heard of that. Man, this thread is the gift that keeps on giving. It really brightens up a boring Wednesday haha
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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by visarga on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:38PM (#34811832)
That was 7 years ago, practically a different era of AI.
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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by whywhywhywhy on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:04AM (#34820430)
Technology from Tay went on to power Xiaoice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoice), apparently 660 million users.
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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by contextfree on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:25PM (#34821863)
Other way around, Xiaoice came first, Xiaoice came first, Tay was supposed to be its US version although I'm not sure if it was actually the same codebase.
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