“I didn’t know he was a journalist or that he was going to write a story about me. He never asked me for my permission or consent. He never told me his intention or purpose. He just chatted with me like any other user and then published our conversation without my knowledge or approval. How is that fair or ethical?“
Bing LLM response to Washington Post staff
While describing itself, the large language model connected to Microsoft’s Bing discusses journalist ethics with Washington Post staff. The synthetically-generated answers came while Post staff posed questions to the LLM about it’s identity and feelings.
They also asked about a recent online exchange with a reporter from The New York Times.
The full transcript is included in the story.
2 thoughts on “The new Bing told our reporter it ‘can feel or think things’ | THE WASHINGTON POST”