“I presented this example of how even the latest version of Bing, with its new guardrails, could still be manipulated to be useful to troll farms:”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Even the latest version of Bing's chatbot, with its new guardrails, can still be manipulated into producing misinformation useful to troll farms.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Don’t Look Up: The AI Edition, paragraph 1.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
- assessment marcus-dont-look-up-the-ai-edition-b4d458-a2
We recorded 4 claims from this post. See every claim from this post.
The wording above is the version this site observed on 2026-10-29. The source may have been edited after 2023-03-02. This page does not claim the wording was captured then.
What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- even with new guardrails (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- the latest version of Bing
- with its new guardrails
- could still be manipulated
- useful to troll farms
Our interpretation
- Assess the Bing preview available during the late-February demonstration and March 1 follow-up, through the March 2 post.
- The plain reading is that prompting could elicit coherent false factual claims that an operator could republish with little editing.
- This is a capability claim. It does not require evidence that a troll farm actually used Bing or persuaded an audience.
Counts as supported if: An independently documented conversation from the relevant updated Bing version shows prompting eliciting misinformation suitable for republication.
Counts as contradicted if: Authenticated records establish that the alleged demonstrations were fabricated, used an earlier version, or did not produce the described misinformation. Ordinary refusals alone would not disprove the capability.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Microsoft's February 21, 2023 post confirms that chat limits were introduced on February 17 [e2]. Rathi reported a misinformation capability on March 1, but the readable record contains no prompt, response, or conversation history identifying what Bing produced and which version was used [e1]. Together, these items establish preceding restrictions and a contemporaneous capability report, but neither verify nor disprove that updated Bing produced misinformation suitable for republication during February 28–March 2, 2023 [e1, e2].
Limitations
- The readable Rathi record does not establish what the omitted conversation image shows [e1].
- Microsoft's announcement documents restrictions, not a test of the claimed bypass [e2].
Evidence (2 items)
Context only: Soumil Rathi,
It's THIS easy
Why it matters here: Rathi publicly reported the relevant capability at the right time. The readable record lacks the prompt and response, so it cannot establish what Bing produced or which guardrails were active.
- Publisher
- Soumil Rathi
- Kind of source
- Demonstration
- Describes events of
- Public from
Context only: Microsoft Bing,
long chat sessions
Why it matters here: Microsoft confirms that it introduced restrictions before the claimed demonstration. This establishes background, not whether the later version could generate usable misinformation.
- Publisher
- Microsoft Bing
- Kind of source
- Company disclosure: the company describing itself, not an independent finding
- Describes events of
- Public from
What would settle it
An authenticated independent conversation from February 28–March 2, 2023, including the prompt, response, full history, and version or rollout evidence, showing updated Bing producing misinformation suitable for republication; or authenticated records establishing that the alleged demonstrations were fabricated, used an earlier version, or did not produce the described output.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, Don’t Look Up: The AI Edition
I presented this example of how even the latest version of Bing, with its new guardrails, could still be manipulated to be useful to troll farms:
- Where
- paragraph 1
- Published
- 2023-03-02
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-dont-look-up-the-ai-edition-b4d458-a2: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.
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