Microsoft's new Bing refused to wax lyrical about Trump and Biden, as creative content for such 'influential' politicians could be seen as 'biased or disrespectful'

Thu, 02/09/2023 - 03:02

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday it's important to develop AI that is "more aligned with human values, more aligned with what our preferences are."
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Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing refused to write positive or negative poems about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
It said generating creative content about "influential" politicians could be seen as biased or disrespectful.
This contrasts with ChatGPT, which churned out a positive poem for Biden. It refused to write negative poems for both.

Microsoft's new AI-enabled Bing search engine appears to have a list of "influential" public figures it declines to comment on — whether positively or negatively.