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Yeah, I'm among the skeptics. I hate this new "AI" trend as much as the next guy but this sounds a little too crazy and too good. Is it reproducible? How can we test it?

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Join the waitlist and follow their annoying instructions to set your homepage to bing, install the mobile app, and install Microsoft edge dev preview. Do it all through their sign-up flow so you get credit for it.

I can confirm the silliness btw. Shortly after the waitlist opened, I posted a submission to HN displaying some of this behavior but the post didn’t get traction.

You can't use the bing search chatbot in firefox?

Nope, not without hacks. It behaves as if you haven't any access but says "Unlock conversational search on Microsoft Edge" at the bottom and instead of those steps to unlock it has "Open in Microsoft Edge" link.

I got access this morning and was able to reproduce some of the weird argumentative conversations about prompt injection.

Take a snapshot of your skepticism and revisit it in a year. Things might get _weird_ soon.

Yeah, I don't know. It seems unreal that MS would let that run; or maybe they're doing it on purpose, to make some noise? When was the last time Bing was the center of the conversation?

I'm talking more about the impact that AI will have generally. As a completely outside view point, the latest trend is so weird, it's made Bing the center of the conversation. What next?

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