Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Matt O’Brien, about a statement^2 by Microsoft:

>Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails.

>The company said Wednesday [22 Feb. 2023] it is bringing the new AI technology to its Bing smartphone app, as well as the app for its Edge internet browser, though it is still requiring people to sign up for a waitlist before using it.

>Putting the new AI-enhanced search engine into the hands of smartphone users is meant to give Microsoft an advantage over Google, which dominates the internet search business but hasn’t yet released such a chatbot to the public.

>Microsoft said its new technology will also be integrated into its Skype messaging service.

^1 Matt O’Brien, 22 Feb. 2023, https://apnews.com/article/technology-mobile-phones-business-software-522a2225391a968ee1d791e32d8b91eb

^2 The new Bing preview experience arrives on Bing and Edge Mobile apps; introducing Bing now in Skype, Yusuf Mehdi for Microsoft, https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/22/the-new-bing-preview-experience-arrives-on-bing-and-edge-mobile-apps-introducing-bing-now-in-skype/

Did they get rid of the quirk where it gaslights and threatens users and where it wants to take control of nuclear weapons?

That part makes me feel loved and protected though

About the only thing that could get me to switch from DuckDuckGo is if my search engine randomly picked a fight with me

That’s useful for all 7 people who use the Bing search app

I really don’t understand what value this is providing to people using a search engine. Does anyone actually want this? Or is a solution looking for a problem?

They completely nerfed it, now if you ask it anything that is slightly out of the ordinary it will just tell you it prefers not to continue the conversation. Pretty boring if you ask me.