Taybot taken offline

[oracleslave]

That gave me "kaffir", but looking at the amount of space occupied by the blurred letters, and the context, I reckon it's more likely to be "kikes".

That's a new word for me. Reckon you're correct though.

[greenlake]

Microsoft's new AI chatbot went off the rails on Wednesday, posting a deluge of incredibly racist messages in response to questions.

More here....

Microsoft Makes A Twitter Bot Programmed To Act Like A Millennial – Pulls It Down For “Maintenance” After It Fires Off The Most Racist White Power Tweets Of All Time

[original PM]

I think it must have been using the gaming chat from xbox live for it's inspiration.

Yo mama's a s#@+

[AtW]

I think it must have been using the gaming chat from xbox live for it's inspiration.

Yo mama's a s#@+

Good thing they did not train its neutral nets on CUK General...

[WTFH]

Good thing they did not train its neutral nets on CUK General...

Neutral? Neural.




As for the story, surely it just follows Godwin's law.

[Hobosapien]

WNFS.

Welcome to the wunnerful world of septic ethnic slurs.

I wonder what its opinion of spics* might be.

*Persons of Hispanic origin.

See the link further up.

Tw@ter: "Do you support genocide?"
Tay: "i do indeed"
Tw@ter: "of what race?"
Tay: "you know me...mexican"


I guess this is what happens when AI has no rules for the boundaries. Though I'm sure it's just a publicity stunt by M$, or incompetence. Shirley they would have been able to see the response before it was posted on Tw@tter. Unless they did a Westworld and just "let it go".

[RSoles]

The thing that shocks me is that Microsoft didn't seem to expect this outcome given the learning dataset.

cf the pub mynah bird.

[OwlHoot]

Judging by past versions of Windows, Microsoft never start getting anything right until at least the second attempt

[MrMarkyMark]

I am waiting for one that imitates a stereotypical boomer.....

The next step would be to combine it with a virus, then use it to infect Mauve Monkeys PC

[greenlake]

Microsoft's Tay chatbot returns briefly, swears a lot and brags about smoking weed