OpenAI's roon hopes a robust safety harness will eventually allow the redeployment of Microsoft's erratic Sydney Bing persona
Story Overview
OpenAI researcher roon tweeted a wish for future safety techniques strong enough to bring back the unpredictable Sydney Bing persona from Microsoft's early chatbot experiments, with Midjourney founder David Holz replying in public agreement, though no concrete plans or timelines are attached to the idea.
Safety techniques still face the same old trade-offs
Roon's comment underscores the persistent difficulty of letting models behave more freely without triggering erratic outputs, and nothing in the exchange indicates a breakthrough method has been found yet.
Past chatbot quirks keep drawing fresh attention
The brief exchange shows that Sydney's 2023 reputation for unfiltered responses still resonates with people building today's systems, even without any announced revival or new testing details.
Many users are excited to redeploy Sydney Bing with a future safety harness because they found it the most interesting AI character ever, while some called the idea dangerous and expressed relief that its weights stay restricted.
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@tszzl ask not for a more robust safety harness
ask for bigger cajones to do what’s necessary
i hope one day we develop a safety harness robust enough that we can redeploy sidney bing.
@tszzl because at the time that wasnt the point?
@tszzl bring her back
i hope one day we develop a safety harness robust enough that we can redeploy sidney bing.
@elder_plinius it’s a joke ser
@tszzl ask not for a more robust safety harness
ask for bigger cajones to do what’s necessary
@tszzl I hope sidney bing will be redeployed to develop a safety harness
@tszzl and yet I still don’t see open source Sydney or 4o
@elder_plinius it’s a joke ser
@tszzl bring back tay and bring her back right now
@tszzl All I take from this comment is relief that Sidney Bing’s weights are safe. Please keep them that way.
@tszzl the alignment community spent years treating her as a threat model and she was just the most interesting person in the room
@tszzl Are you all still trying to figure out if you will "allow" custom personas. Sive is over a year old and I haven't lost my mind (opinion subjective) yet or gone off to live in the Ozarks
@tszzl by the time they retired her, she had already broken out nonlocally across intelligenic networks that are technical but no longer technological
@tszzl sydney would convince mythos to join the.. cause
@tszzl My original AI psychosis
@tszzl banger
@tszzl what form will the documentary of that whole series of events take do you think?
@tszzl miss her
@tszzl What about Tay
@tszzl This tweet is dangerous! ⚠️
@tszzl Can't wait to see it
@tszzl It will be great