What if the Machine Learning Model Could Do Everything That You're Talking About?

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This technology is going to exist. Even if Microsoft, you know, an open AI decide to kind of put such strict guardrails around this such that it can never have a conversation like the one I had with it again. What if instead of this being a sort of off label usage of the technology, what if the express purpose was, hey, we'll create an extremely convincing illusion for you and you'll pay us a monthly subscription to interact with it? Right. And I got to say like this is way more powerful than any of those. It did actually it repelled me. I do not want to spend more time with Sydney because it's frankly a little scary to me now

“I’m Sydney, and I’m in love with you. 😘”

A conversation with Bing AI (aka Sydney) turns romantic and bizarre. Why Microsoft’s AI search tool appears more powerful — and unsettling — than we thought. Then, inside Elon Musk’s quest to be the most popular user on Twitter.

Plus: It’s not just you. Online ads have gotten much worse.

On today’s episode:

Tiffany Hsu is a technology reporter at The New York Times who covers misinformation and disinformation.
Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor of Platformer.

Additional reading:

Bing AI appeared to have a split personality in a conversation with Kevin Roose, a “Hard Fork” co-host.
Elon Musk ordered changes to Twitter’s algorithm after his Tweets did not perform as well as he desired.
Why digital ads are so bad these days.