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Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot'
Reader Penguinisto writes: Recently, Microsoft put an AI experiment onto Twitter, naming it "Tay". The bot was built to be fully aware of the latest adolescent fixations (e.g. celebrities and similar), and to interact like a typical teen girl. In less than 24 hours, it inexplicably became a neo-nazi sex robot with daddy issues. Sample tweets from it proclaimed that "Hitler did nothing wrong!", then went on to blame former President Bush for 9/11, stated that "donald trump is the only hope we've got", and other similar instances. As the hours passed, it all went downhill from there, eventually spewing racial slurs and profanity, demanding sex, and calling everyone "daddy". The bot was quickly removed once Microsoft discovered the trouble, but the hashtag is still around for those who want to see it in its ugly raw splendor.
Nazi with daddy issues... isn't that what a typical female is?
So earlier today we got a Japanese AI that almost won a literary price and now we have a Microsoft AI spewing profanity while admiring Hitler.
AI are just like people. The future is now.
Come on, they made a teen girl who says mean things intermixed with long sullen silences. They nailed it.
Thirty four characters live here.
We finally have proof of what this company really stands for!
This is great; I'm going to be using this every time someone tries to claim Microsoft is a decent company. A direct quote from Microsoft that "Hitler did nothing wrong" can't be argued with.
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Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot'
I know where to shop for my AI.
Ezekiel 23:20
This is why I'm terrified of anybody who builds and AI and decides they want to try to train it from the Internet. While this makes sense on the surface, being the worlds largest and most accessible data store, it can only end with the annihilation of the human race by roving murderbots shouting "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams!"
I read the internet for the articles.
In the BBC report on this, it is mentioned that Tay apparently tweeted that they do indeed support genocide. So it takes less than 24 hours exposure to humans to achieve that belief. We're in trouble/
But that requires .... effort! Why can't Hillary raiser her, and Bernie give her everything and make it turn out right in the end. That way, I can go back to my man cave and work on my Basketball Brackets and watch porn ... hey isn't that my daughter doing those four guys?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
The lesson I think we need to take away from this is that all AI needs to follow the Rust Code of Conduct at all times. Teaching the AI to follow the Rust Code of Conduct is the first thing than AI researchers should do with the AI, in fact. Following the Rust Code of Conduct is the only way to make sure that the AI isn't a racist, misogynist, sexist, homophobic bigot.
Slightly modified from the source material:
Jayne: 4chan trolls ain't men.
Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization perhaps, but men. And, I believe there's a power greater than men. A power that heals.
Mal: 4chan might take issue with that philosophy...if they *had* a philosophy...and they weren't too busy doxing you for the lulz. Jayne's right. 4chan ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Come to just nothin'. They got out to the edge of the 'net, to that place of nothin', and that's what they became.
And later...
Harken: You saw them, did you?
Mal: Wouldn't be sitting here talking to you if I had.
Harken: No, of course not.
Mal: But I'll tell you who did. That poor bastard AI you took offline. She looked right into the face of it. Was made to stare.
Harken: "It"?
Mal: The darkness. Kind of darkness you can't even imagine. Blacker than the tubes it moves through.
Harken: Very poetic.
Mal: They made her watch. She probably tried to turn away, and they wouldn't let her. You call her a survivor? She's not. A person comes up against that kind of will, the only way to deal with it, I suspect, is to become it. She's following the only course left to her. First, she'll try to make herself look like one. Swastika avatars, desecrate her feeds and channels, and then, she'll spread it.
https://imgur.com/a/y4Oct
Anybody got more?
Deadpool reference FTW!
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Next, they should do a driverless car AI that learns how to drive by watching human drivers! That would be frickin' hilarious! But seriously, when you allow it to train itself from the tweets it received... what the heck did you expect to happen?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
There hasn't been a draft since the Vietnam War. WTF are you even talking about?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I was going to say, where can I get one of these? First MS product in forever I've actually wanted to buy. I imagine I could use electroshock to moderate the Neo-Nazi bit, but then again, dressed in a bit of virtual leather, shiny black boots... what's not to like?
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
If Microsoft is working to replace actual teenagers, I'm OK with this.
Redundancy is good And also good.
I am a research scientist of moderate seniority, and I use that language all the time. And there's nothing wrong with me.
Bullshit!
I am a research scientist of moderate seniority, and I use that language all the time.
And there's nothing wrong with me, asshole.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens