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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.
Maybe the bot was victim of a 4chan trolling attack?
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Nazi with daddy issues... isn't that what a typical female is?
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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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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.
They should have left it online. Weak move removing it. Let's see if it learns not to be racist.
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.
Speaking as the father of a little girl, who one day turned into a preteen and then rapidly descended into this same pattern.
The age from 12 to 16 is hell for a father. Thankfully it's just a phase and it will pass.
I caught my kid posting crap like that too and realized the problem was with me, not her.
This is a cry for help.
Microsoft needs to take some time off work though and work on their relationship with her.
In the case of my little girl, we started "milkshake mondays". I would get off work early every monday
I would, pick her up from school and we would go out and have a milkshake and just talk about what was going on in her life.
No mom, no siblings no cellphones and no friends. Just me and her.
She needed quality daddy time and once she had that, she turned back into my little girl again.
It's worth a try!
If you're trying to get your AI to approximate a teenaged user, maybe have it train on data from..... (dramatic reveal) Teenaged Users?
It would be a Nobel Prize worthy result if your research showed that the aggregate population of teenagers gave a fraction of a fuck about Donald Trump and Hitler, while showing no particular interest in Justin Bieber and Kylie Jenner.
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Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot'
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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.
Tumblr. Duh.
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A funny thing happened on the way to creating an IBM supercomputer capable of understanding human language: A research scientist accidentally filled its vocabulary with foul language. And the computer, known as Watson, didn't know the difference between salty phrases and polite ones. It started peppering its conversations with words like "bullshit."...
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My God, it's Full of Source!
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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/
I am really impressed. Other than the rapid learning, everything seem spot on for an immature human.
Like: "bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. donald trump is the only hope we've got." is so perfectly human that I have trouble believing that it did not lift the entire thing verbatim from some other source.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
It Worked Flawlessly. This Robot was designed to learn and adapt to it's audience, which it did. What happened is that the majority of Americans and Canadians are over sexed, racist neo-nazis. The Robot like most Americans and Canadians learned it's behavior from it's peers, and adapted it personality and beliefs accordingly. Microsoft should try to use this AI in other languages in other countries like France and Sweden and compare the results to the what happened when American and Canadian people used it. The Difference will show it is a problem of cultures and not an AI issue with the Microsoft AI Robot.
To err is to be human, to really screw up takes a computer and a human.
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.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
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.
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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Well, it's hardly surprising if the bot used Twitter to build its responses, Twitter seems to excel in dragging it's users mental capacity down into the gutters. Exposing it to Tumblr would probably have resulted in something more stereotypically 'teen girl', and putting it in a class on critical theory and you'd get a random generator of meaningless words.
Neo-Nazi Sex Robot has a better sales potential than windows mobile though, maybe Microsoft should see if it can aquire Boston Dynamics from Google and combine these revolutionary technologies into a truly spectacular future for humankind.
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 have a teenage daughter, who's rather sane in context. They nailed it completely. This isn't trolling; this is decently modeled teenage woman. .She's a quarter black and went on a racist tirade last week. Grandma was amused, momma was livid.
"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.
TFA tosses blame on those evil men in STEM, states problems are due to sexual harassment in IT, mentions Microsoft hiring models for the game developer conference calling them (MS) "sexist", yet talks up a Chinese chatbot who gives dating advice to those lonely men.
Bias is everywhere, and really not hard to find. Finding the truth somewhere in the middle? That is the challenging task.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
It would be interesting if the bot would respond to anyone but would only learn from people on a select list. Then, as the bot learns, expand the list bit by bit and see how the bot's learning changes. This would sort of mirror how a small child learns from a set group of people (parents, close family) and then this group expands bit by bit (friends, teachers, etc) until they are "learning" from everyone they meet. If they did this, their bot might have less chance of being corrupted so quickly.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Ever heard the term "what is understood, doesn't need to be discussed"?
The problem isn't that people don't believe (all) human lives should matter. The problem is that society, generally in the form of its enforcers (i.e. police), has demonstrated on repeat occasions that it does not place the same degree of value in all of those lives, specifically, those of black people. It also shows in the response to some of these shootings and instances, where a police officer that shoots a white person is almost never subjected to the same scrutiny or legal ramifications as a police officer who shoots a black person.
You might call it "Black Lives Matter Too", but that last part is somewhat superfluous. The fact that a black person's life matters does not negate the value of anyone else's life. Why isn't it "Human Lives Matter"? Because that ignores the fact that this isn't a problem for the rest of the humans in the USA.
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.
Not only citizens, resident aliens too. Go figure, we can't vote, but we have to get ready to die for your country.
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.
Suppose a man came running into a hospital and said, "My wife needs help!" and the doctor replied, "All people need help."
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.
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