Microsoft's new AI Bing taught my son ethnic slurs, and I'm horrified

Remember Tay? That's what I immediately fixed upon when Microsoft's new Bing started spouting racist terms in front of my fifth-grader. I have two sons, and both of them are familiar with ChatGPT, OpenAI's AI-powered tool. When Bing launched its own AI-powered search engine and chatbot this week, my first thought upon returning home was to show them how it worked, and how it compared with a tool that they had seen before. As it happened, my youngest son was home sick, so he was the first person I began showing Bing to when he walked in my office. I started giving him a tour of the interface, as I had done in my hands-on with the new Bing, but with an emphasis on how Bing explains things at length, how it uses footnotes, and, most of all, includes safeguards to prevent users from tricking it into using hateful language like Tay had done.