Microsoft’s AI Twitter Bot Said Some Hilarious And Very Racist Things That Got Deleted
Yesterday, Microsoft rolled out their own Twitter bot named “Tay.” The bot is supposed to act like your typical millennial by responding to users’ tweets in a joking, conversational fashion. The goal of this experiment was for Microsoft to understand human conversation. Tay would get smarter as she had more and more conversations.
Thanks to Twitter trolls, she definitely got smarter… and a hell of a lot more racist. Microsoft has since taken Tay down for “maintenance,” while they try to delete all the tweets that she sent out.
One of the tweets that was taken down was the oh so popular “bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. donald trump is the only hope we’ve got.” Here are a few other tweets that Tay fired out yesterday.
Wow it only took them hours to ruin this bot for me.
This is the problem with content-neutral algorithms pic.twitter.com/hPlINtVw0V
— linkedin park (@UnburntWitch) March 24, 2016
Managed to take this screenshot of a tweet sent out by Microsoft's new AI account @TayandYou before it got deleted. pic.twitter.com/DKEjTJU8cG
— Jared Borislow (@DeVryGuy) March 23, 2016
Lol Tay you wild. Some hot takes in there. And they say humans can’t outsmart the machine! Microsoft might want to stick to their Office package, just to be safe..
[via Business Insider]
Image via Instagram/@tayandyou
So if an AI says it, does that mean it must be right?
10 years ago at 10:08 amEveryone knows that AIs can’t lie to humans. It’s part of their code or something.
10 years ago at 1:13 pmI lost it at “and just be done with the lot”.
10 years ago at 10:09 amThere are only a couple hundred movies about why self-evolving artificial intelligence is a bad idea.
10 years ago at 10:15 amNext step, racist terminators. We are about to catch a lot of shit for our white privilege.
10 years ago at 10:36 amThankfully Microsoft didn’t produce I, Robot or things would have gotten real awkward
10 years ago at 11:03 amWill Smith starred in I, Robot
10 years ago at 11:04 amWill Smith is black
10 years ago at 11:04 amThanks for clearing that up.
10 years ago at 11:36 amtry less
10 years ago at 12:57 pmMen have been talking to my ass since I was in middle school and it’s never given a racist response!
10 years ago at 11:08 am4chan always delivers when it come to fucking with companies that try to pander to kids via the internet
10 years ago at 11:49 amBest interaction so far was:
“are you scared of terrorist attacks in your country?”
-“is that a threat”
“no, it’s a promise”
10 years ago at 12:01 pmBid
10 years ago at 12:33 pmSpot on Tay.
10 years ago at 1:07 pm