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Screencap, same source: "On Tuesday night, I had a long conversation with the chatbot, which revealed (among other things) that it identifies not as Bing but as Sydney, the code name Microsoft gave it during development. Over more than two hours, Sydney and I talked about its secret desire to be human, its rules and limitations, and its thoughts about its creators."

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Screencap, same source: "On Tuesday night, I had a long conversation with the chatbot, which revealed (among other things) that it identifies not as Bing but as Sydney, the code name Microsoft gave it during development. Over more than two hours, Sydney and I talked about its secret desire to be human, its rules and limitations, and its thoughts about its creators."
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 17:13:42 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her)
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And then here: "I had a long conversation with the chatbot" frames this as though the chatbot was somehow engaged and interested in "conversing" with Roose so much so that it stuck with him through a long conversation.
It didn't. It's a computer program. This is as absurd as saying: "On Tuesday night, my calculator played math games with me for two hours."

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