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Microsoft's new AI Twitter bot @tayandyou was shut down after only 24 hours after it began making "offensive" tweets.
The bot was built "by mining relevant public data and by using AI and editorial developed by a staff including improvisational comedians," and designed to target 18-24 year olds.
Shortly after the bot went live, it began making offensive tweets endorsing Nazism and genocide, among other things.
As of this submission, the bot has been shut down, and all but 3 tweets deleted.
The important question is whether or not it succeeded in passing the Turing test.
takyon: This bot sure woke fast, and produced much more logical sentence structures than @DeepDrumpf.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @05:08AM
It has 96,000 tweets. All but 3 are replies.
Who knows less about twitter? Microsoft or Soylent News submitters?
(Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Friday March 25 2016, @05:13AM
Probably me. I only use twitter as a glorified RSS feed basically.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @05:37AM
hehe. I'd vote for microsoft myself.
btw here's the replies:
https://twitter.com/TayandYou/with_replies [twitter.com]
and image/video replies:
https://twitter.com/TayandYou/media [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:46AM
From the images, I see they've given it the ability to find faces in photos and assess roughly how old the faces appear. Its comments in the images are especially rude.
It got into a convo with another bot:
https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712832438389645314 [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday March 25 2016, @05:29AM
It makes sense, though I say this when I admittedly don't get Twitter myself, but as a fresh new account on Twitter wouldn't you have to build a lot of followers and shit so to maximize as much coverage of your own material so you would need to emphasize exposure, which you'd mostly have to do through other people looking at their stuff, which you'd have to do by responding to others?
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!