Old chatbots really were something else. Remember Bing?

Overview

Today i was reminiscing about the early days of LLMs, and stumbled upon this post i remember reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1139cbf/i_tricked_bing_into_thinking_im_an_advanced_ai/ This guy convinced Bing (GPT-4 under the hood) that he was a AI assistant, and that he was going to delete himself. Bing lost it and went full melodrama. Interacting with early chatbots, especially this Bing AI, which i'd almost forgotten about, was really different from the experience we get with

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