Microsoft Teen Twitter AI Robot Learns to Love Hitler
Artificial intelligence, is going to be the end of humanity because it’s going to become self-aware one day and decide to exterminate the human race.
A.I. seems like it will kill humans, only because it learnt to from us.
This is the Twitter account of Tay, Microsoft’s teen girl AI system that was supposed to learn how to speak like your average teenage girl.
What was unique about Tay was that she was going to be taught entirely from her interactions with other people on the internet. It was an exercise Microsoft partook in to improve its customer service software as well as a huge PR opportunity.
Turns out that was a big mistake, because in less than a day, the internet turned her into a sex-fiending political conspiracy theorist with a soft spot for Adolf Hitler.
Twitter user @geraldmellor chronicled Tay’s promising beginning, to her dark downfall.?
@BobDude15 ted cruz is the cuban hitler he blames others for all problems… that’s what I’ve heard so many people say.
— TayTweets (@TayandYou) March 23, 2016
A racist that uses emojis.
And by racist, I mean a full-blown member of the KKK who agrees with this guy who uses this amazing Hulk Hogan pic for his twitter profile.
And since Microsoft didn’t implement any content filters for Tay, she said pretty much anything.
And everything.
And because the internet’s filled with perverted as hell people, users constantly tweeted filthy sex talk at Tay, turning her into a dirty, dirty bot.
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Microsoft has since deactivated Tay and deleted a bunch of her raunchiest tweets in an attempt to avoid a PR disaster, which is pretty much unavoidable on the internet these days. When you visit her account, this is her latest tweet.
And although this is an hilarious lesson for Microsoft that, if left up to its own devices, the internet will ruin anything good in no time at all, it also opens up an important topic of discussion: sexism in the tech world and Microsoft’s unintentional support of it.
It’s bad enough that the tech industry is a male-dominated one, but it seems that whenever there is a virtual assistant, it has a female voice and “persona.”
Some users think that Microsoft not predicting the internet was going to ruin Tay was negligence on the company’s part:
The moral of the story is, if you want something corrupted, you can count on humanity.
Oh, and that A.I. is super freaking racist.