Microsoft has pretty much admitted its Bing chatbot can go rogue if prodded
In the blogpost, Microsoft called such out-of-tone responses a"non-trivial scenario that requires a lot of prompting." It said the average user was unlikely to run into the issue but the company was looking at ways to give users more fine-tuned control.
Microsoft also acknowledged that some users had been"really testing the capabilities and limits of the service," and pointed to a few cases where they had been speaking to the chatbot for two hours. The company said very long chat sessions could"confuse the model on what questions it is answering" and it was considering adding a tool for users to refresh the context or start from scratch.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which provides Microsoft with the chatbot technology, also appeared to reference the issue in a
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