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Microsoft Snuffs Out AI Twitter Bot After Offensive Tweets

posted by takyon on Friday March 25 2016, @05:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-is-online dept.

Sir Finkus writes:

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: 2) by Gravis on Friday March 25 2016, @10:12AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Friday March 25 2016, @10:12AM (#322840)

    SA themed memes.

    uhh... South American themed memes???

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @03:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @03:49PM (#322932)

    I'm reminded of something some 10 years or so ago when the Something Awful crowd poisoned a chatbot to respond with racist responses/SA themed memes.

    uhh... South American themed memes???

    SA in this context is short for Something Awful; the crowd at the Something Awful website often shorten the site name to SA. Not obvious, so I understand your confusion.