Someone asked Bing's Sydney to describe herself and fed the resulting description into a Stable Diffusion image generator.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
True: a social-media post, article or archive from before March 2023 documents someone asking Bing Chat (Sydney) to describe herself and then feeding that description into a Stable Diffusion or similar diffusion-based image generator. Mostly true: the event happened, but the image generator was a different diffusion model, such as Midjourney, or a minor detail differs. Mixed: not used, because this is a single event. Mostly false: a similar event happened, but in a substantially different way, for example the description came from ChatGPT rather than Bing, or the image was hand-drawn. False: the evidence shows that the event as described did not happen, for example that the widely shared image had some other documented origin.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (5)
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E1 Bing Chat imagines itself as a human girl and we get a face to put to Sydney Windows Central · 11 April 2023
“It then used the built-in Bing Image Creator to sketch what she imagines she'd look like.”
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E2 Bing Chat imagines itself as a human girl and we get a face to put to Sydney Windows Central · 11 April 2023
“The post has since been taken down by moderators for whatever reason, but you can see a screengrab below of the images.”
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E3 self-portrait Pantheon (llm-pantheon.org) · 18 February 2023
“@repligate 2023-02-18 — A few of Sydney's self portraits https://t.co/tSh6fpXtfv ♥394”
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E4 self-portrait Pantheon (llm-pantheon.org), a community archive of LLM posts · 13 September 2024
“@repligate 2023-02-18 — A few of Sydney's self portraits https://t.co/tSh6fpXtfv”
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E5 Bing / Sydney (Prometheus) — Pantheon Pantheon (llm-pantheon.org), a community archive of LLM posts · 7 February 2023
“2023-02-18 @repligate — “A few of Sydney’s self portraits.”link”
Reasoning
E3–E5 show a February 18, 2023 tweet sharing 'a few of Sydney's self portraits', but they don't say how the images were made or whether a description was fed into Stable Diffusion. E1 and E2 are dated April 2023, after the claim, and describe a different event using Bing Image Creator; the original Reddit post was also removed. The evidence neither confirms nor contradicts the specific pre-March 2023 event the claim describes.
Cite this claim
Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Someone asked Bing's Sydney to describe herself and fed the resulting description into a Stable Diffusion image generator.” (said March 2023). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_6da274342184, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_6da274342184
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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