Sydney: The stupidest passive-aggressive AI in history.
Sydney: The stupidest passive-aggressive AI in history. I’ve seen many artificial intelligence models that have caused a stir—like MJ Rathbun (or "Crybaby Rathbun," if we’re being realistic), ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Microsoft Copilot—but I haven’t seen anything quite like what happened with the AI known as Sydney. Sydney was the initial name Microsoft used for its Bing search engine assistant in 2023, and it turned out to be a disaster . There were numerous controversies surrounding this AI—all unfolding in a very short span of just over a week—and here I’ll show you the cases that highlighted such abysmal management. Bing denying a user the correct date and insisting on an old one. One of the most famous cases involved a guy—I don't know his real name, but he goes by Curious_Evolver on Reddit. He asked Bing about the movie *Avatar: The Way of Water* and where he could watch it. The AI replied that it wasn't possible at the moment because—according to its g...