Courtesy of Kevin Liu.
- Kevin Liu, a Stanford student, said he prompted Bing's AI chatbot to recite an internal document.
- Liu posted screenshots of the exchange, in which Bing apparently said its backend name is "Sydney."
- A Microsoft spokesperson said Sydney refers to an "internal code name" that was previously used.
We may now know a secret alias of Microsoft's new conversational AI chatbot.
Kevin Liu, a computer science student at Stanford University, said he tricked Microsoft's "new Bing" — which is backed by ChatGPT's creator OpenAI — into revealing its backend identity: Sydney.