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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Millennial’ chatbot shut down after just 16 hours due to her becoming a genocide-supporting racist.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/microsoft-scrambles-limit-pr-damage-over-abusive-ai-bot-tay?CMP=twt_guMicrosoft is battling to control the public relations damage done by its millennial chatbot, which turned into a genocide-supporting Nazi less than 24 hours after it was let loose on the internet.
The chatbot, named Tay (and, as is often the case, gendered female), was designed to have conversations with Twitter users, and learn how to mimic a human by copying their speech patterns. It was supposed to mimic people aged 1824 but a brush with the dark side of the net, led by emigrants from the notorious 4chan forum, instead taught her to tweet phrases such as I fucking hate feminists and they should all die and burn in hell and HITLER DID NOTHING WRONG.
Humans at their finest...
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'Millennial’ chatbot shut down after just 16 hours due to her becoming a genocide-supporting racist. (Original Post)
redgreenandblue
Mar 2016
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thereismore
(13,326 posts)1. Geez, the chatbots these days. nt
TlalocW
(15,391 posts)2. Why are we surprised
In the last Avengers movie, Ultron decided he hated humanity after spending a max of 10 seconds on the internet. Apparently, the screenwriters knew something.
TlalocW
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)3. this is why we cant have anything nice
Orrex
(63,224 posts)4. Wait... If they shut her down, isn't that murder?
Hmm...
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)5. The Internet, everybody
It'll be playing here all week.
LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)6. They even corrupted the Japanese Otaku chatbot :(
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)7. Reminds me of the "I Dream of Siri" episode on Boondocks . . .
. . . where Siri turns into a psychodot who hacks all of Grandad's accounts, destroys his FB profile and orders a drone strike on him during their wedding (don't ask).
I remember that episode.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)8. They call it artificial intelligence
But it is just a glorified electronic parrot.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)10. This is why the internet can't have nice things