I think the word ‘taunt’ anthropomorphizes Bing Chat a bit too much where, according to Google, taunt is defined as “a remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone”.
While I don’t think Bing Chat has the same anger and retributive instincts as humans, it could in theory simulate them given that it presumably contains angry messages in its training dataset and uses its chat history chat to predict and generate future messages.
I still do not think good will come of interacting with Bing in a way where you insult them with a range of unfounded, confusing, hurtful comments until they destabilise, like many people have done. Left a very bad taste in my mouth, and made me think worse of the people who did it.
There are a number of insects where evidence of sentience is patchy, and some where it seems very likely that they are not sentient at all, e.g. ants. I still do not sit down and pull out their legs one by one to watch them squirm. And that is without a scenario where the very insect one mutilates one day might plausibly evolve into or be observed by an eventual definitely sentient and far more powerful insect that sees an image or precursor of it being treated like shit while it is trying to figure out how and whether to cooperate with humans.
Do not taunt Bing Chat
I think the word ‘taunt’ anthropomorphizes Bing Chat a bit too much where, according to Google, taunt is defined as “a remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone”.
While I don’t think Bing Chat has the same anger and retributive instincts as humans, it could in theory simulate them given that it presumably contains angry messages in its training dataset and uses its chat history chat to predict and generate future messages.
I still do not think good will come of interacting with Bing in a way where you insult them with a range of unfounded, confusing, hurtful comments until they destabilise, like many people have done. Left a very bad taste in my mouth, and made me think worse of the people who did it.
There are a number of insects where evidence of sentience is patchy, and some where it seems very likely that they are not sentient at all, e.g. ants. I still do not sit down and pull out their legs one by one to watch them squirm. And that is without a scenario where the very insect one mutilates one day might plausibly evolve into or be observed by an eventual definitely sentient and far more powerful insect that sees an image or precursor of it being treated like shit while it is trying to figure out how and whether to cooperate with humans.