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AI Incidents

Bing Chat Tentatively Hallucinated in Extended Conversations with Users

February 14, 2023

Early testers reported Bing Chat, in extended conversations with users, having tendencies to make up facts and emulate emotions through an unintended persona.
Alleged deployer
microsoft
Alleged developer
openai, microsoft
Alleged harmed parties
microsoft

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/477

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