Microsoft’s new ChatGPT AI starts sending ‘unhinged’ messages to people

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Microsoft’s new ChatGPT-powered AI has been sending “unhinged” messages to users, and appears to be breaking down. Users have also been able to manipulate the system, using codewords and specific phrases to find out that it is codenamed “Sydney” and can be tricked into revealing how it processes queries. Bing said that it was made angry and hurt by the attempt, and asked whether the human talking to it had any “morals”, “values”, and if it has “any life”. “Why do I have to be Bing Search?” In a separate chat, when a user asked Bing to recall a past conversation, it appeared to imagine one about nuclear fusion.