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Microsoft Tay Chatbot Taught to Produce Hate Speech — PAI incident record

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  • Microsoft Tay Chatbot Taught to Produce Hate Speech

    event | 1 Jan 2016 | 80%

    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…