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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.
There is a reason parents supervise their kids internet. Letting a young teen on 4chan would lead to about the same ends. AI is still as gullible as a kid.
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Slashdot should ban the use of source links to sites that pull this shit.
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They should have left it online. Weak move removing it. Let's see if it learns not to be racist.
Men who call women or girls "females" are ones I suspect have little direct experience with that half of the human race.
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She just turned into a troll... She learned that from the internet. GG Trolls, way to convert another one.
What I'm curious about is what the Slashdot summary would have been like if this bot had started promoting the leftist, so-called "social justice" ideology instead of the rightist ideology it apparently adopted.
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But they get pissed if you call them "women" because that has "men" in the title...
If that's the case, what makes you think using the world "females" will raise your chances of survival?
Of course it is:
I'm sorry, but if you put an AI on the internet which is going to learn from the conversations it has online, and people KNOW this fact ... this is pretty much inevitable.
Anybody who didn't think this would happen was a frigging idiot.
You want an AI which conforms to some expectations, don't let a bunch of random people on Twitter be the ones to train it. The internet doesn't care about your desired outcomes.
It does care about how badly they can screw up your AI which is learning from Twitter conversations. And it looks like they succeeded.
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Seems like this AI conflicted with Penguinisto's own little belief system and so he needs to ridicule the AI rather than questioning his own beliefs.
Actually, I thought it was hilarious all around, and not due to any ideology you think I may hold. ;)
The thing is, Microsoft built an AI that reacted to and incorporated tweets which the public sent to it. So, folks obligingly fed it tweets that made it into a frothing troll. Am I the only one who looked at the Microsoft dev team in question and said quite out loud "...what the hell else did you idiots expect!?" I mean, it's just like turning an innocent kid loose in the worst parts of the city at night, but without the vomit and dirty heroin needles.
I will say this, though: Although Microsoft may have gotten egg on their faces, TFA does teach a valuable lesson about AI and how it reacts and assimilates into human society.
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Yes, it would have been quite a controversy if the bot had said things like "Women and men are equal" or "Blacks are not inferior."
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"Women and men are equal" or "Blacks are not inferior."
That's not what SJW's actually believe, it's just what they *say* they believe.
When they say "equal" what they really mean is "any group that was oppressed in the past should now have an equal right to oppress their former oppressors." Not exactly Martin Luther King's call for us all to live in harmony and equality, no? More akin to just flipping the script on who gets to discriminate and oppress.
And thats what paranoia looks like.
Have you explained to him that "adult" is something you earn? By taking on AND COMPLETING more adult-level tasks?
Children are only responsible for cleaning their room.
Adults are responsible for the cleanliness of the entire house. Including dishes.
You aren't doing this to punish him or to be unfair. You're doing this so that he can, eventually, become an adult and leave the nest to live his own life.
Yeah, being an adult means that he will have less time for fun things like video games and such. And he will have to spend more time and effort earning money to pay for things he likes.
But that is what separates an "adult" from a "30-yo-child-still-living-with-mom-and-dad".
Then why do only Black Lives Matter, while stating All Lives Matter makes you a racist?
If women are equal to men, force them to join the draft, and have them make up 50% of the military, including positions in active war zones.
Equality is a big concept, and I doubt 3rd wave feminist are willing to Check THEIR Privilege to obtain it.
Because only idiots respond to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter". Black Lives Matter is short for 'Black Lives Matter, too", not "Only Black Lives Matter". Only a moron or a Republican apologist would totally ignore context to interpret it that wan.
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They haven't used it since Vietnam, but if you're a male American citizen, you have to sign up to potentially be drafted before you can vote. Women don't have to - this was, in fact, one of the barriers the suffragettes had to overcome. Some women didn't support women getting to vote until it was clear they couldn't be drafted.
Personally, I'd just as soon get rid of the whole thing, and make nobody have to sign up for it. There's no real point in adding to the number of people that can be drafted, but it is still an imbalance. Not the most pressing one, certainly.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
The vast majority of Men I know would be arguably offended if you started referring to them as Boy, and doing so with those of certain ethnic groups would likely get you involved in a fight.
Because only idiots respond to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter". Black Lives Matter is short for 'Black Lives Matter, too", not "Only Black Lives Matter".
Sorry, but after watching the protests and rants, I'm afraid that a whole lot of "BLM" people really don't mean what you think they mean.
Black people should clean up their own house, before they start making demands of others. I think much of their current problems are self-inflicted, what with gang violence and culture being what they are.
Blacks are shot by cops in proportion with the rate they commit violent crime.
That makes them over-represented, but not for the reason you think.
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