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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.
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.
Japanese AI Program Wrote a Short Novel, Almost Won a Literary Prize
Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot'
I know where to shop for my AI.
Ezekiel 23:20
I suspect someone who knows what Ferengi are have little direct experience with females.
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.