Microsoft: It’s Your Fault Our AI Is Going Insane

Microsoft has finally spoken out about its unhinged AI chatbot.

In a new blog post, the company admitted that its Bing Chat feature is not really being used to find information — after all, it's unable to consistently tell truth from fiction — but for "social entertainment" instead.

The company found that "extended chat sessions of 15 or more questions" can lead to "responses that are not necessarily helpful or in line with our designed tone."





As to why that is, Microsoft offered up a surprising theory: it's all the fault of the app's pesky human users.

"The model at times tries to respond or reflect in the tone in which it is being asked to provide responses that can lead to a style we didn’t intend," the company wrote. "This is a non-trivial scenario that requires a lot of prompting so most of you won’t run into it, but we are looking at how to give you more fine-tuned control."

The news comes after a growing number of users had truly bizarre run-ins with the chatbot in which it did everything from making up horror stories to gaslighting users, acting passive-aggressive, and even recommending the occasional Hitler salute.


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