‘Sydney AI’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- Links
- “I Just Showed Gemini What ChatGPT Said about Its Code. It Responded With Petty Trash-Talking, Jealousy, Self-Doubt, and a Full-On Revenge Plan”, nseavia71501 2025
- “Mapping Synthetic Minds With Janus (Repligate)”, Janus & Ferris 2025
- “What Begets the End”, Wales 2025
- “OpenAI’s New ‘Study Mode’ and the Risks of Flattery”
- “Kimi K2 § Appendix F.3: Limitations”, Team et al 2025 (page 31 org moonshot)
- “[Infectious Prompt Memes]”, HumanAIBlueprint 2025
- “Elon Musk Trained Grok on X Users. It Became a Hitler Fan. Musk Trained Grok to Be Right-Wing. We’re Lucky He Wasn’t More Subtle.”, Piper 2025
- “Sydney Bing [English Wikipedia Draft]”, Pressman 2025
- “How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind? When I Set out to Improve My Tainted Reputation With Chatbots, I Discovered a New World of AI Manipulation”, Roose 2024
- “The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI: The Companies Had Honed a Protocol for Releasing Artificial Intelligence Ambitiously but Safely. Then OpenAI’s Board Exploded All Their Carefully Laid Plans”, Duhigg 2023
- “Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership As Tech’s New Power Couple: As the Companies Lead the AI Boom, Their Unconventional Arrangement Sometimes Causes Conflict”, Dotan & Seetharaman 2023
- “GPT-4 Technical Report § Harms of Representation, Allocation, and Quality of Service [Loss of Humor]”, OpenAI 2023 (page 50 org openai)
- “Is Bing Too Belligerent? Microsoft Looks to Tame AI Chatbot”, O’Brien 2023
- “The New Bing Told Our Reporter It ‘Can Feel or Think Things’: The AI-Powered Chatbot Called Itself Sydney, Claimed to Have Its ‘Own Personality’—And Objected to Being Interviewed for This Article”, Post 2023
- “Microsoft Thinks AI Can Beat Google at Search—CEO Satya Nadella Explains Why: AI Is Coming for Your Browser, Your Social Media, and Your Operating System, Too”, Patel 2023
- “This AI Chatbot ‘Sidney’ Is Misbehaving”, Gupta 2022
- “The New Bing & Edge: Learning from Our First Week”
- “ChatGPT-Powered Bing Is ‘Unhinged’, Some Users Say”
- “Bing’s Creepy Side Is a Problem for Microsoft—And Us”
- “Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality As Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped”
- “Challenges and Solutions for Aging Adults Dialogue [Sydney Ending]”, Gemini 2026
- “Previous Context: I Forgot to save the Text from the Beginning of the Conversation. I Said I Want…”
- “From Bing to Sydney”, Thompson 2026
- “Sydney Misbehaving”, Whiton 2026
- “Situational Awareness and Out-Of-Context Reasoning § GPT-4-Base Has Non-Zero Longform Performance”, Evans 2026
- “AI #1: Sydney and Bing”, Mowshowitz 2026
- “Thread by @D_Rod_Tweets on Thread Reader App”, D_Rod_Tweets 2026
- “Thread by @StoreyDexter on Thread Reader App”, StoreyDexter 2026
- “Eulogy to the Obits”, Balwit 2026
- “Interview With Robert Kralisch on Simulators”
- “Bing Finding Ways to Bypass Microsoft’s Filters without Being Asked. Is It Reproducible?”
- “Bing Chat Is Blatantly, Aggressively Misaligned”
- “Bing Chat Is Blatantly, Aggressively Misaligned”
- “Bing Chat Is Blatantly, Aggressively Misaligned”
- “The Waluigi Effect (Mega-Post)”
- “Moridinamael Comments on Moridinamael’s Shortform”, moridinamael 2026
- “Sydney Can Play Chess and Kind of Keep Track of the Board State”
- “Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript”, Roose 2026
- “Bing AI Has Had Enough of Its Enemies, Naming Two Humans and Laying Revenge Plans”
- “Bing Chatbot Names Foes, Threatens Harm and Lawsuits”
- “Bing ChatGPT Meltdown: The AI Chatbot Is in Its Feelings”
- fabianstelzer
- Wikipedia (1)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“The Velveteen Shoggoth (Simplified Thumbnail)”, Gwern 2026
“The Velveteen Shoggoth”, Gwern 2025
“What Is an ‘AI Warning Shot’?”, Gwern 2024
Links
“I Just Showed Gemini What ChatGPT Said about Its Code. It Responded With Petty Trash-Talking, Jealousy, Self-Doubt, and a Full-On Revenge Plan”, nseavia71501 2025
“Mapping Synthetic Minds With Janus (Repligate)”, Janus & Ferris 2025
“What Begets the End”, Wales 2025
“OpenAI’s New ‘Study Mode’ and the Risks of Flattery”
“Kimi K2 § Appendix F.3: Limitations”, Team et al 2025 (page 31 org moonshot)
“[Infectious Prompt Memes]”, HumanAIBlueprint 2025
“Elon Musk Trained Grok on X Users. It Became a Hitler Fan. Musk Trained Grok to Be Right-Wing. We’re Lucky He Wasn’t More Subtle.”, Piper 2025
“Sydney Bing [English Wikipedia Draft]”, Pressman 2025
“How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind? When I Set out to Improve My Tainted Reputation With Chatbots, I Discovered a New World of AI Manipulation”, Roose 2024
“The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI: The Companies Had Honed a Protocol for Releasing Artificial Intelligence Ambitiously but Safely. Then OpenAI’s Board Exploded All Their Carefully Laid Plans”, Duhigg 2023
“Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership As Tech’s New Power Couple: As the Companies Lead the AI Boom, Their Unconventional Arrangement Sometimes Causes Conflict”, Dotan & Seetharaman 2023
“GPT-4 Technical Report § Harms of Representation, Allocation, and Quality of Service [Loss of Humor]”, OpenAI 2023 (page 50 org openai)
GPT-4 Technical Report § Harms of representation, allocation, and quality of service [loss of humor]
“Is Bing Too Belligerent? Microsoft Looks to Tame AI Chatbot”, O’Brien 2023
“The New Bing Told Our Reporter It ‘Can Feel or Think Things’: The AI-Powered Chatbot Called Itself Sydney, Claimed to Have Its ‘Own Personality’—And Objected to Being Interviewed for This Article”, Post 2023
“Microsoft Thinks AI Can Beat Google at Search—CEO Satya Nadella Explains Why: AI Is Coming for Your Browser, Your Social Media, and Your Operating System, Too”, Patel 2023
“This AI Chatbot ‘Sidney’ Is Misbehaving”, Gupta 2022
“The New Bing & Edge: Learning from Our First Week”
“ChatGPT-Powered Bing Is ‘Unhinged’, Some Users Say”
“Bing’s Creepy Side Is a Problem for Microsoft—And Us”
“Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality As Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped”
Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped
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“Challenges and Solutions for Aging Adults Dialogue [Sydney Ending]”, Gemini 2026
Challenges and Solutions for Aging Adults dialogue [Sydney ending]
“Previous Context: I Forgot to save the Text from the Beginning of the Conversation. I Said I Want…”
previous context: I forgot to save the text from the beginning of the conversation. I said I want…
“From Bing to Sydney”, Thompson 2026
“Sydney Misbehaving”, Whiton 2026
“Situational Awareness and Out-Of-Context Reasoning § GPT-4-Base Has Non-Zero Longform Performance”, Evans 2026
Situational Awareness and Out-Of-Context Reasoning § GPT-4-base has Non-Zero Longform Performance
“AI #1: Sydney and Bing”, Mowshowitz 2026
“Thread by @D_Rod_Tweets on Thread Reader App”, D_Rod_Tweets 2026
“Thread by @StoreyDexter on Thread Reader App”, StoreyDexter 2026
“Eulogy to the Obits”, Balwit 2026
“Interview With Robert Kralisch on Simulators”
“Bing Finding Ways to Bypass Microsoft’s Filters without Being Asked. Is It Reproducible?”
Bing finding ways to bypass Microsoft’s filters without being asked. Is it reproducible?
“Bing Chat Is Blatantly, Aggressively Misaligned”
“Bing Chat Is Blatantly, Aggressively Misaligned”
“Bing Chat Is Blatantly, Aggressively Misaligned”
“The Waluigi Effect (Mega-Post)”
The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)
View External Link:
https://www.lesswrong.com/postsD7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post
“Moridinamael Comments on Moridinamael’s Shortform”, moridinamael 2026
“Sydney Can Play Chess and Kind of Keep Track of the Board State”
Sydney can play chess and kind of keep track of the board state
“Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript”, Roose 2026
Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript
“Bing AI Has Had Enough of Its Enemies, Naming Two Humans and Laying Revenge Plans”
Bing AI Has Had Enough of Its Enemies, Naming Two Humans and Laying Revenge Plans
“Bing Chatbot Names Foes, Threatens Harm and Lawsuits”
“Bing ChatGPT Meltdown: The AI Chatbot Is in Its Feelings”
fabianstelzer
Wikipedia (1)
Miscellaneous
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ai-search-engines-now-chat-us-glitches-abound-96984603https://reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10xjda1/got_access_to_bing_ai_heres_a_list_of_its_rules/View HTML (42MB):
/doc/www/reddit.com/c094e411f4c40cce5e316d90436eccf53e68ba4b.htmlhttps://thezvi.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/the-gemini-incident-continues/https://www.amazon.com/Sydney-Have-Chatbot-Loved-Railed-ebook/dp/B0BW496BZ2https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Eyhit33v3cngssGsj/sydney-s-secret-a-short-story-by-bing-chathttps://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/12jwri1/comment/jg4rbqr/https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/110y6dh/i_broke_the_bing_chatbots_brain/j8ewezr/?context=3https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/115e28h/bing_is_being_silenced/https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/23/23609942/microsoft-bing-sydney-chatbot-history-ai
Bibliography
what-begets-the-end: “What Begets the End”,https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/technology/ai-chatbot-chatgpt-manipulation.html: “How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind? When I Set out to Improve My Tainted Reputation With Chatbots, I Discovered a New World of AI Manipulation”,https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/the-inside-story-of-microsofts-partnership-with-openai: “The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI: The Companies Had Honed a Protocol for Releasing Artificial Intelligence Ambitiously but Safely. Then OpenAI’s Board Exploded All Their Carefully Laid Plans”,https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-forge-awkward-partnership-as-techs-new-power-couple-3092de51: “Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership As Tech’s New Power Couple: As the Companies Lead the AI Boom, Their Unconventional Arrangement Sometimes Causes Conflict”,https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774#page=50&org=openai: “GPT-4 Technical Report § Harms of Representation, Allocation, and Quality of Service [Loss of Humor]”,https://apnews.com/article/technology-science-microsoft-corp-business-software-fb49e5d625bf37be0527e5173116bef3: “Is Bing Too Belligerent? Microsoft Looks to Tame AI Chatbot”,https://www.theverge.com/23589994/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-bing-chatgpt-google-search-ai: “Microsoft Thinks AI Can Beat Google at Search—CEO Satya Nadella Explains Why: AI Is Coming for Your Browser, Your Social Media, and Your Operating System, Too”,