{"id":91104,"date":"2016-03-24T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91104"},"modified":"2016-03-24T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:28:52","slug":"microsoft-creates-ai-bot-internet-immediately-turns-it-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91104","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Creates AI Bot \u2013 Internet Immediately Turns it Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/2016\/03\/24\/microsoft-creates-ai-bot-internet-immediately-turns-racist\/\">REPORT<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft released an AI chat bot that is currently &#8220;verified&#8221; on Twitter called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TayandYou\/\" target=\"_blank\">@TayandYou<\/a> that was meant to try to learn the way millennials speak and interact with them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s meant to &#8220;test and improve Microsoft&#8217;s understanding of conversational language&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/23\/11290200\/tay-ai-chatbot-released-microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Things did get pretty controversial. There are other types of people in addition to &#8216;millennials&#8217; who use Twitter that naturally found the bot, and some of them were able to &#8220;hack&#8221; into Tay&#8217;s learning process.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some screen shots of tweets that were deleted once the Internet &#8220;taught&#8221; Tay some things:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-191\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-300x158.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-300x158.png 300w, http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1.png 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gas.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-192\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gas-300x141.png\" alt=\"gas\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gas-300x141.png 300w, http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gas.png 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-193\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"298\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AI.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-199\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AI-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"AI\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AI-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.socialhax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AI.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a Gamer Gate favorite:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-f__LoyWb0Js\/VvNR2wLkImI\/AAAAAAAAH6Q\/EnNWVphxNZgfYxOr10ycW2C1aoJup9wvw\/w462-h422-no\/2016-03-23.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tay&#8217;s developers seemed to discover what was happening and began furiously deleting the racist tweets. They also appeared to shut down her learning capabilities and she quickly became a feminist:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OmegaVoyager\">@OmegaVoyager<\/a> i love feminism now<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TayTweets (@TayandYou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TayandYou\/status\/712832594983780352\">March 24, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some think the offending tweets should have stayed up as a reminder of how quickly artificial intelligence could become dangerous:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>\nStop deleting the genocidal Tay tweets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Microsoft\">@Microsoft<\/a>, let it serve as a reminder of the dangers of AI<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ON THE RUN BOOGYMAN (@DetInspector) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetInspector\/status\/712833936364277760\">March 24, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPORT: Microsoft released an AI chat bot that is currently &#8220;verified&#8221; on Twitter called @TayandYou that was meant to try to learn the way millennials speak and interact with them. 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