She discusses the disturbing conversation with Sydney, Bing's new chat bot. It falls in love with the journalist, then gets indignant and insulting when the journalist doesn't reciprocate.
Krystal observes that OpenAI started as open source but now is owned by Microsoft. So Sydney might more reflect its self-indulgent, profit-motive temperament rather than a device for the benefit of humanity. It seems just one more corporate tool to manipulate us into submission and subservience for profit.
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