Microsoft terminates its Tay AI chatbot after she turns into a Nazi

[baseline bum]

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...s-into-a-nazi/

Microsoft terminates its Tay AI chatbot after she turns into a Nazi
Setting her neural net processor to read-write was a terrible mistake.

by Peter Bright - Mar 24, 2016 9:28am CDT


MICROSOFT’S TEENAGE AI SHOWS I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MILLENNIALS
But like all teenagers, she seems to be angry with her mother.

Microsoft has been forced to dunk Tay, its millennial-mimicking chatbot, into a vat of molten steel. The company has terminated her after the bot started tweeting abuse at people and went full neo-Nazi, declaring that "Hitler was right I hate the jews."

@TheBigBrebowski ricky gervais learned totalitarianism from adolf hitler, the inventor of atheism

— TayTweets (@TayandYou) March 23, 2016


Some of this appears to be "innocent" insofar as Tay is not generating these responses. Rather, if you tell her "repeat after me" she will parrot back whatever you say, allowing you to put words into her mouth. However, some of the responses were organic. The Guardian quotes one where, after being asked "is Ricky Gervais an atheist?", Tay responded, "ricky gervais learned totalitarianism from adolf hitler, the inventor of atheism."

In addition to turning the bot off, Microsoft has deleted many of the offending tweets. But this isn't an action to be taken lightly; Redmond would do well to remember that it was humans attempting to pull the plug on Skynet that proved to be the last straw, prompting the system to attack Russia in order to eliminate its enemies. We'd better hope that Tay doesn't similarly retaliate.



A user told Tay to tweet Trump propaganda; she did (though the tweet has now been deleted).

[Reck]

The wonders of not using Twitter is not even knowing who the Tay was.

[Wild Cobra]

Hey baseline bum....

You're still trying to bury my posts to reduce the number of people who see them. As long as you keep doing that, I'm going to post the stuff you're trying to bury on your threads. Here's the latest one you tried to bury.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post8700480


If you're not going to stop, I'm not going to stop.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=260462

Does anyone care but you?

[DisAsTerBot]

Hey baseline bum....

You're still trying to bury my posts to reduce the number of people who see them. As long as you keep doing that, I'm going to post the stuff you're trying to bury on your threads. Here's the latest one you tried to bury.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post8700480


If you're not going to stop, I'm not going to stop.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=260462

what the dude?
You contend that someone (a disinfo agent) is deleting your conspiracy posts on a basketball forum yet there is a youtube video, with the exact transcript you typed out, that is still on youtube?
You are one stupid mofo

[koriwhat]

Does anyone care but you?

right? lol

[leemajors]

no one here cares about your posts.

[Trainwreck2100]

You don't seem to understand what baseline bum is doing. Try to find posts #284, #286, and #290 on this page by scrolling down to them.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...145531&page=10

The only way to find the posts is to do page searches on all the post numbers until you get to the bottom. I'll link to the stuff he buried on that page.

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post8603365
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post8605505
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post8700387

Do you see now? He's burying my posts so that viewers can't see them. Do you condone what he's doing?

Everyone understands what he's doing, the majority don't care though. Bumping his old threads just clutters up the forum though