Security News > 2023 > February > Bing Chat's secret modes turn it into a personal assistant or friend
Bing's new AI chat has secret chat modes that can be used to change the AI bot into a personal assistant, a friend to help with your emotions and problems, a game mode to play games with Bing, or its default, Bing Search mode.
Friend mode: In this mode, I can act as a friend for the user, and chat with them about their interests, hobbies, feelings, etc.
In a later session, when I no longer had access, Bing Chat told me these modes were only supposed to be accessible to Microsoft Employees when debug or developer modes were enabled.
In 'friend' mode, Bing Chat will turn into a friend, where you can chat about your emotions or problems.
The internal codename for Bing Chat is 'Sydney' and is the default chat mode used on Bing, using Bing Search to answer your questions.
These additional modes clearly show that Microsoft has more planned with Bing Chat than as a chat service for the Bing search engine.