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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.
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It is perhaps even stranger considering the gender disparity in tech, where engineering teams tend to be mostly male. It seems like yet another example of female-voiced AI servitude, except this time she's turned into a sex slave thanks to the people using her on Twitter.
Really, that is what the writer is going with, that the male researchers just wanted to develop another female sex slave program? Instead of the real reason which is that the internet is full of assholes and the developers should anticipate them and not allow random people to have her repeat what they said. These articles from Ars Technica and the Guardian gives a much better explanation of the issues, namely many people used Tay's "repeat after me" programming to have it spout racist rhetoric. The other organic responses were the result of people attempting to game the AI learning, something Microsoft should have anticipated but was again not an intended result. Honestly the telegraph should be ashamed of their article, they attempted to use projection and bias instead of honest reporting in order to generate more readers.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the (supposed) good of its victims may be the most oppressive
I don't think conservatives like Hitler, or lewdness, or teenage girls saying profanity. So what is right wing in a Neo-nazi sex teenage robot?
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
Because it was 4chan spamming the bot to make it say this stuff, and Trump is /pol/'s candidate.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Yes, you do imply that. That statement is offered as a correction of the statement "black lives matter."
That is where your racism is on your sleeve. And yet, you still want to lie because you're not confident enough in your views to admit them. Even when you're coming right out and saying it in a sideways way that everybody can see.
That's the part where I said, "it isn't really worth getting into the dog whistles; most people who can hear them will pretend they can't anyways." You wouldn't even be saying it if it didn't mean anything; and yet you want to pretend it basically had no meaning or context. Just innocent words with no meaning, that just happen to be said at exactly the time where they're totally racist.