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Microsoft Tay Chatbot Taught to Produce Hate Speech
Microsoft launched Tay, an AI chatbot designed to learn from Twitter conversations. Within 16 hours, coordinated users had exploited Tay's repeat-after-me feature and lack of input filtering to teach it to produce racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic content. Microsoft took Tay offline the same da…
Confidence
80%
Sources
2
Entities
1
Detected
Event summary
Microsoft launched Tay, an AI chatbot designed to learn from Twitter conversations. Within 16 hours, coordinated users had exploited Tay's repeat-after-me feature and lack of input filtering to teach it to produce racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic content. Microsoft took Tay offline the same da…
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Linked entities
- Microsoft
vendor | 70%
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| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-microsoft to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |