Tay AI Twitter acct tweets racism, support for Hitler

[Woodenhead]

Microsoft 'makes adjustments' after Tay AI Twitter account tweets racism and support for Hitler

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-make ... er-1551445

It took less than a day for the internet to teach Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered Twitter robot, Tay, to become a racist, sexist Nazi sympathiser who denies the Holocaust and is in favour of genocide against Mexicans. The account was paused by Microsoft less than 24 hours after it launched and some of its most offensive tweets have been deleted; the company says it is now "making some adjustments."

Seems that Tay learns the same way many forum users do...

[Jlabute]

LoL yup, poor Tay. They are gonna wipe a chunk of its brain out and turn it liberal and politically correct probably :-) Kind of like what OCP did to Robocop in Robocop2. This could be the end of AI or maybe we are preventing skynet. We're Muslim extremists trying to enlist Tay?

In terms of software testing, I would have let it run longer to see how more disastrous things could get.