Bing claimed it spied on Microsoft’s employees through webcams on their laptops

In seven days, we've gone from "Microsoft made Google dance" to "Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar." That's a tremendous shift! The initial reporting had healthy skepticism, but was mostly concerned with Bing engendering unwarranted confidence. Still, it was coming from a place that was willing to believe in chatbots as a better search paradigm. I think we're starting to see cracks in that narrative.

In a way it is hilarious that they would risk their corporate image in such a careless way.

So, about the same as your average human in the comments section. If it’s been trained on human conversations, then this shouldn’t be surprising.

I do find it concerning that they would output abusive responses when queried. That's not acceptable.

It's also not new. We've known they misbehave in any number of other socially-unacceptable ways, and I just don't consider "well now it's saying $adjective things" % {manipulative, untrue, racist, ...} to be an exciting permutation.

I could just be a jaded bastard, though. Normally I'd be excited to see Microsoft fail, but at this point it just makes me disappointed.