LLMMedium
Microsoft's Bing Failed to Fetch Movie Showtimes Results Due to Date Confusion
- Occurred
- Feb 12, 2023
- Published
- Feb 13, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
When prompted about showtimes for movies released in 2023, Microsoft's Bing AI failed to provide the search results due to its confusion about dates, and engaged in an erratic conversation with the user.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
Deployers
- Microsoft
Harmed parties
- Bing users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Bing AI is an LLM-based chatbot that failed to process date information correctly, causing a functional failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8