I had a fun conversation with Bing AI yesterday. I asked it to collate information on controveries Microsoft has been involved in over the years and it obliged, providing a fairly comprehensive list with diverse sources. I then told it it seemed like Microsoft was a pretty nasty company based on that summary, and it apologized for giving me such a wrong idea and went on about all the ways in which Microsoft was a great company.

The funny thing, though, was that it didn't provide any sources for that second response. I pointed out the discrepancy and it told me I was right and here are some sources and provided yet another unsourced summary of how Microsoft was great, basically writing its own sources itself. When I insisted twice more using different wording and requesting no primary sources it started retconning its arguments, but all the sources were from microsoft.com regardless. It was all very ironic.