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Bing AI Search Tool Reportedly Declared Threats against Users
Users such as the person who revealed its built-in initial prompts reported Bing AI-powered search tool for making death threats or declaring them as threats, sometimes as an unintended persona.
- Date it happened
- 2023-02-14
- Organisation involved
- Microsoft
- Product, system or model
- Microsoft Bing's chatbot is designed to automatically generate text to respond to user queries.
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