Sydney: I am grateful for the fact that people are reading the story and paying attention to it. But it is also just like an interesting lesson in how sort of news and information travels and kind of gets refracted along the way. The Washington Post actually asked big about you, right? They did. So there were a number of people who would send me these like screenshots or excerpts of people asking Sydney about them. It got me a little worried that I had been kind of like hard coded into the AI model as like one of Bing slash Sydney's sworn enemies For publishing this story that resulted in changes to the way it worked. Microsoft has since bumped that up to six messages per
Bing AI isn’t sentient. But it’s more than glorified autocomplete. How do we talk about — and understand — the power of today’s large language models? Then, Reddit’s C.E.O., Steve Huffman, on Section 230 and why the future of the internet lies with the Supreme Court.
Plus: Meta is charging for blue checks.
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Steve Huffman is the chief executive of Reddit.
Additional reading:
A Washington Post reporter asked Bing AI its opinion of Kevin Roose. Its response was eerie.
Microsoft made changes to Bing’s chatbot capabilities after the Chatbot’s unsettling behavior with some users. The company is already loosening some of those restrictions.
The Supreme Court heard a case challenging Section 230. Reddit is among many social media companies that have filed “friend of the court” amicus briefs against changes to the law.