u/wjruffing

Have you noticed that Copilot seems to be inventing totally bogus information more often than it used to (more frequently in the last three months or so)?

* I’ve had it tell me that the spare tire in my wife’s van was stored under the vehicle and had to be lowers via pulleys and cables (bogus)

* I’ve had it tell me (quite convincingly) that a totally legitimate state government URL was actually an attempt at stealing my identity and was linked to a known ongoing scam when the domain was clearly legitimate.

* I’ve seen it invent information totally out of thin air only to petulantly admit that it made up the information when pressed to do so. This is now happening on a regular basis.

* I’ve seen it regularly IGNORE rules that I’ve included in “durable memory” with statements like “disinformation is worse than NO information as well as instructions that tell it to say “i don’t know” when no actual information is available or where it has forgotten info within the same conversation.

Just a few examples but they are chronic and appear to be worsening.

Am I the only one noticing this?

I’m getting REALLY tired of Copilot’s alteration of URLs so that they redirect me to Bing.com (which doesn’t know what to do with the URL and so brings up search results based upon whatever text makes up the URL (valueless to me) instead of taking me directly to the website targeted by the URL.

Microsoft’s decision to add this behavior seems as if it’s driven by the Microsoft VP in charge of the Bing search engine product: Demanding that all Copilot URLs get altered to FORCE traffic to the Bing search engine website as a way to artificially boost bing’s performance numbers!

It reminds me of that episode of The Office where Ryan gets arrested after forcing his employees to log all sales orders as if they came in through the website.

Am I the only one FED UP with this nonsensical behavior?