Opinion: Microsoft's cheeky chatbot portends a strange new world


Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing internet-search engine and Edge browser powered by the newest technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI. — Bloomberg

Of all the strange things on the Internet, search engines once seemed fairly benign.

But as Microsoft and other tech giants realised this month, combining interactive search technology with artificial intelligence leads to some very odd and sometimes disturbing results.

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