Internet Turns Microsoft's New Twitter Chat Bot Into a Racist in a Day
Tony Lewis - CW33
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March 25, 2016
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We all know we have to be careful what we say around little kids. They'll repeat anything - good or bad. Looks like that same caution needs to be shown with innocent chat bots as well.

The bot’s name is Tay. Microsoft created the artificial intelligence machine in hopes that it could pass for a typical teen. The bot just launched Wednesday morning, but appears to have already picked up some pretty nasty habits.

Everything started out pretty tame, but eventually Tay seemed to be influenced by a certain crowd tweeting - “We're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it.”

But it got even worse.

Read the rest at CW33

Related: Twitter May Have Just Doomed Humanity by Trolling an Artificial Intelligence Bot (VICE News)

Related: Microsoft Apologises After Twitter Chat Bot Experiment Goes Awry (Business Times)

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