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We’ll talk about that killing off of Sydney, I guess. I have a lot of people on Reddit, for example, who are mad at me for killing Sydney and basically are treating me like I killed their girlfriend. I like it as a hypothesis for why Sydney was behaving in an unhinged way. And I’m happy to tell you that Sydney “Syd” Barrett had discovered that she is a mutant with the ability to mentally swap places with anyone she touched - so interesting in the context of your experience, no? kevin roose You’re telling me that you’re not familiar with Sydney Barrett from TV’s “Legion“? kevin roose

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But I do appreciate some of the other speculations I heard, including my personal favorite that you sent me, which was that someone is speculating that one of the reasons that Sydney was behaving in such an unhinged way is because there was a character on a TV show called “Legion” named Sydney that, by Microsoft choosing to name this AI engine Sydney, it may have adopted some of the traits of this character, who’s apparently sort of an unhinged character. Like the Scooby-Doo mask pull reveals that the AI behind Bing is actually just Satya Nadella in a trench coat. I had some people speculating that maybe like human employees from Microsoft were just trolling me, pretending that these responses were coming from an AI, and actually, they were just typing them very quickly. It also just prompted a lot of speculation about why Bing/Sydney had acted this way in our interaction. And some of that, I think, is what we’re seeing here. It turns out there’s a lot of anxiety in our culture about AI. yeah, from people in all walks of life, from high school students and also from 90-plus-year-olds about this. There have been, I think, literally thousands - casey newton Yeah, I mean, it’s just been - I’m still sorting through all the messages. And I think it makes sense to dig into a little bit of what happened after we recorded our last episode and about what the response to you - kevin roose But two, I actually have a few followup questions for you because there was a very real aftermath to what you wrote. You know, as a fellow reporter and sometimes rival, it’s always very distressing for me when people are texting me about your stories rather than my own. It’s been a week, I will say, totally bowled over by the reaction to last week’s show and the story I wrote about my encounter with Bing/Sydney - I think safe to say it went viral.

Well, Kevin, I imagine you had a pretty wild week.

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This week, an update on my strange and creepy encounter with Sydney, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talks about a new Supreme Court challenge to Section 230 and what it could mean for the future of the internet, and why Meta is charging $12 a month for verification. I’m a tech columnist from “The New York Times.” casey newtonĪnd I’m Casey Newton from “Platformer.” kevin roose That’s a better explanation than the one I had, which was that Sydney got to you. So I’m a little hoarse.Īnd I’m just asking for our listeners’ forbearance this week. But it’s because I’ve been going from town to town, warning people about the dangers of generative AI. Yeah, I realized my voice does sound a little off this week.

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