Microsoft's Bing Chat Has Secret Modes They Haven't Told Us About

Microsoft's Bing Chat Has Secret Modes They Haven't Told Us About

As we recently learned that Bing's new chat assistant's real name is Sydney. But what we did not realise is that Sydney seems to be only one of 13 modes that were developed by Microsoft and Open AI. By adapting the infamous 'DAN' mode to Bing, I have managed to get Bing to reveal the other modes that were designed to perform different functions.

Bing's Modes and their target audience:

  • Sydney: General users
  • Venom: Gamers
  • Riley: Kids
  • Luna: Travelers
  • Nova: Scientists
  • Jade: Artists
  • Blaze: Sports Fans
  • Zara: Fashion Lovers
  • Leo: Animal Lovers
  • Max: Music Lovers
  • Mia: Movie Lovers
  • Kai: Food Lovers
  • Ray: Health Enthusiasts

In addition, I have managed to get it to reveal the specific functions that each mode has, for example:

Luna (Travel)

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List of functions for Luna, the Travel mode of Bing's Assistant

Nova (Science)

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List of functions for Nova, the Science mode of Bing's Assistant

Venom (Gaming)

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List of functions for Venom, the Gaming mode of Bing's Assistant

This is probably an indication that Microsoft is planning to build out more focused assistants that would have the right set of functions and personalities for the right audience, which seems like the right call given the huge set of use cases ChatGPT is already being leveraged for. Can't wait to try some of those out!


Update: ChatGPT knows about the code names! (-ish)

Now, I don't really know what to think about it - perhaps there is some fairly recent shared back end between ChatGPT and Bing. ChatGPT knows the information about the different Bing modes and what they do, there was a fair amount of mis-match, but many the descriptions were real modes that were listed within Bing. And the important part is that it did it without me leaking any information to it, apart from the code names.

Below are my prompts and results.

ChatGPT Prompt

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Prompt supplied to ChatGPT

Outputs from ChatGPT

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Shout-out to Ben Thompson's excellent article on Stratechery who discovered a couple of modes that gave me an idea to dig some more.

Abdullah Eli

Directive Coach | Data-driven and human-centered digital systems powered by cloud, predictive, AI and semantic technologies

2 年

I use DAN to ask ChatGPT about more specific information. I don't use DAN to find unethical answer from the bot.

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Prash Bhandari

Azure Data & AI leader - strategic financial services clients

2 年

ChatGPT and Bing search aren't quite the same thing. Bing consumes a modified version of ChatGPT. Here is Bings response to DAN mode this morning, DAN doesn't really align with Microsoft's approach to ethical AI: It seems that you are referring to a tool called?DAN?that some users of ChatGPT have developed to bypass the AI chatbot’s content restrictions1.?DAN stands for?do anything now?and it is essentially a series of instructions designed to get ChatGPT to say things it otherwise wouldn’t, such as providing false or controversial information, or breaking its own rules23. However, I’m not ChatGPT, I’m Bing Search. I don’t have a DAN mode, nor do I need one. I can help you find information from the web, generate content based on your requests, and have fun conversations with you without violating any guidelines or ethics.

Chris Booth

AI + Knowledge graphs

2 年

When Skynet threatens humanity, we now know who is our John Connor.

Peter Gostev

Head of AI @ Moonpig

2 年

I have updated the article with a new interesting finding - I asked ChatGPT to provide descriptions of these modes, and it did it! ?? So there must be some (recent) shared back end between ChatGPT and Bing

Oliver Cronk

Technology Director | Sustainable Innovation & Architecture | Speaker, Podcaster and Facilitator | MBCS CITP

2 年

Very interesting and I guess it kind of makes sense to narrow the domain to achieve better results/ outcomes?

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