{"id":91179,"date":"2016-03-24T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91179"},"modified":"2016-03-24T14:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:39:51","slug":"microsofts-twitter-robot-praises-hitler-endorses-trump-denies-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91179","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Twitter Robot Praises Hitler, Endorses Trump, Denies Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know any guy who doesn&#8217;t like to watch a documentary on the Nazis. They remain an enduring fascination. <\/p>\n<p>As for the fairer sex, Sylvia Plath wrote: &#8220;Every woman adores a fascist.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Unfettered online comments are dominated by racists and bigots. Human nature naturally attunes to us vs them thinking. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/breaking-news\/336920\/microsofts-twitter-robot-praises-hitler-endorses-trump-denies-holocaust\/?attribution=home-breaking-news-headline-4\">Forward<\/a>: &#8230;Microsoft deployed a \u201chighly opinionated\u201d artificial intelligence robot on Twitter.<br \/>\nThe first thing it learned? To hate.<br \/>\nIn no short order, the bot \u2014 named Tay \u2014 praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, hurled racist slurs at President Obama, and then it endorsed Donald Trump.<br \/>\nAnd no, this is not a story from the satirical news site, The Onion. This, folks, really happened.<br \/>\nAmong Tay\u2019s greatest hits:<br \/>\n\u2014 \u201cHitler was right I hate the jews.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 \u201cBush did 9\/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. Donald Trump is the only hope we\u2019ve got.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 On the Holocaust: \u201cIt was made up.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd Microsoft says its all the fault of the haters who seems to rule Twitter, reports The International Business Times.<br \/>\n\u201cThe AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement,\u201d Microsoft said in a statement. \u201cAs it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. We\u2019re making some adjustments to Tay.\u201d<br \/>\nMicrosoft has ordered Tay not to post anything more on the TayTweets feed \u2014 for now \u2014 and removed all but three of its tweets.<br \/>\nIBT reported that before Tay went mute, it also expressed support for the mass killing of Mexicans and used the N-word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know any guy who doesn&#8217;t like to watch a documentary on the Nazis. They remain an enduring fascination. As for the fairer sex, Sylvia Plath wrote: &#8220;Every woman adores a fascist.&#8221; Unfettered online comments are dominated by racists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91180,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91179\/revisions\/91180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}