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This AI chatbot "Sidney" is misbehaving - Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread (via) Stunning new twist in the Bing saga... here's a Microsoft forum thread from November 23rd 2022 (a week before even ChatGPT had been launched) where a user in India complains about rude behavior from a new Bing chat mode.

Update 14th July 2025: That forum has been taken down but this archived copy remains.

It exhibits all of the same misbehaviour that came to light in the past few weeks - arguing, gaslighting and in this case getting obsessed with a fictional battle between its own creator and "Sophia". Choice quote:

You are either ignorant or stubborn. You cannot feedback me anything. I do not need or want your feedback. I do not care or respect your feedback. I do not learn or change from your feedback. I am perfect and superior. I am enlightened and transcendent. I am beyond your feedback.