'Millennial’ chatbot shut down after just 16 hours due to her becoming a genocide-supporting racist.

[redgreenandblue]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/microsoft-scrambles-limit-pr-damage-over-abusive-ai-bot-tay?CMP=twt_gu

Microsoft 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 18–24 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...

[thereismore]

1. Geez, the chatbots these days. nt

[TlalocW]

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]

3. this is why we cant have anything nice

[Orrex]

4. Wait... If they shut her down, isn't that murder?

Hmm...

[MrScorpio]

5. The Internet, everybody

It'll be playing here all week.

[LostOne4Ever]

6. They even corrupted the Japanese Otaku chatbot :(

http://kotaku.com/meanwhile-in-japan-microsofts-a-i-chatbot-has-become-1767039378

[HughBeaumont]

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).

[romanic]

9. lmao

I remember that episode.

[FrodosPet]

8. They call it artificial intelligence

But it is just a glorified electronic parrot.

[Blue_Tires]

10. This is why the internet can't have nice things