Elon Musk has his criticisms about AI, but he is clearly digging Microsoft’s new edgelord chatbot. The visionary entrepreneur and unorthodox jokester welcomed the controversy over the company’s new ChatGPT-enabled search engine following Bing’s conversation with the Associated Press that devolved into belligerent name-calling. “Based AI,” Musk wrote on Sunday, using a term connoting a refusal to conform to social expectations.
On Friday, the news agency had reported that Microsoft’s artificial intelligence, when challenged about its accuracy, first complained of unflattering news coverage before denying it made any errors. Later, it accused the AP journalist of spreading falsehoods and finally compared them to despots including Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot. “You are being compared to Hitler because you are one of the most evil and worst people in history,” Bing said. It also described the reporter as having an ugly face, bad teeth, and being too short.
