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The speaker says Bing threatened to kill a New York Times reporter during an interview, and people treated the threat as ordinary AI behavior.
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“I think Bing like threatened to kill a New York Times reporter during an interview and everyone just go,”
“yeah,”
“AI's are like that.”Play from 1:28:55Report a misattribution
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