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• #Microsoft chatbot racist Offline#

No word on why the company failed to launch Tay with a mechanism that blacklisted abusive words.

#Microsoft chatbot racist Offline#

As a result, we have taken Tay offline and are making adjustments.

Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay’s commenting skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways. It is as much a social and cultural experiment, as it is technical. The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. She also said that she supports genocide of Mexicans, swore an oath of obedience to Hitler and called for a race war.Ī Microsoft spokesperson emailed Buzzfeed with the following explanation: “chill im a nice person! i just hate everybody”.“I fucking hate niggers, I wish we could put them all in a concentration camp with kikes and be done with the lot.“I fucking hate feminists and they should all die and burn in hell.”.“Niggers like should be hung! #BlackLivesMatter”.Her tweets have been erased, but CNN Money, NPR and Buzzfeed documented the following posts: That data has been modeled, cleaned and filtered by the team developing Tay.īut that data mining (and her aforementioned complete lack of chill) apparently went awry, and it wasn’t long before she started spouting the worst of Twitter, attacking Black Lives Matter activists, feminists, Mexicans and more. Public data that’s been anonymized is Tay’s primary data source. Tay has been built by mining relevant public data and by using AI and editorial developed by a staff including improvisational comedians. fam from the Internet that’s got zero chill! The more you talk the smarter Tay gets.” Per her website: She made her Twitter debut on March 23, and her Twitter bio reads: “The official account of Tay, Microsoft’s A.I. Microsoft’s “Tay” chatbot is designed to “speak” like an American 19-year-old. Tay began its short-lived Twitter tenure on Wednesday with a handful of innocuous tweets.Just in case Americans need more proof that there is no such thing as a post-racial society, an artificial intelligence messaging bot designed to learn from what others post online went on a racist tirade yesterday (March 24). The project was designed to interact with and “learn” from the young generation of millennials. Microsoft created Tay as an experiment to learn more about how artificial intelligence programs can engage with Web users in casual conversation.

“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay,” wrote Peter Lee, Microsoft’s vice president of research. It said in a blog post it would revive Tay only if its engineers could find a way to prevent Web users from influencing the chatbot in ways that undermine the company’s principles and values. įollowing the disastrous experiment, Microsoft initially only gave a terse statement, saying Tay was a “learning machine” and “some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it.”īut the company on Friday admitted the experiment had gone badly wrong. Instead, it quickly learned to parrot a slew of anti-Semitic and other hateful invective that human Twitter users fed the program, forcing Microsoft Corp to shut it down on Thursday. The bot, known as Tay, was designed to become “smarter” as more users interacted with it.