Microsoft creates AI bot that spams Twitter with Overt Racism

[souen]

So there was another performance today …

 

[HN-Matt]

1000 monkeys, 1000 typewriters, 1000 tweets as meltdown threshold and... 1000 shitty clickbait articles. The tech world becomes more respectable by the minute.

 

[drmike]

What the hell is Microshaft up to with this bot.. pretending to be a teen girl??? I think it's an angry middle aged bunch of programmers with gender issues behind the bot.  Blame the failings on the public, sure...  modeling things around a susceptible and impressionable teenage girl... geez what could possibly go wrong???

 

[HN-Matt]

Company-wide mid-life crisis?

Everything seems to happen at mid-life: The empty nest, menopause, affairs, and growing unhappiness with a job. It's no wonder you bought that red convertible. Interestingly, mid-life is more of an issue in some cultures than others. Western societies hold on to youth more tightly than others.

Maybe they were 'unconsciously' reifying a means to become extrapolations of Kevin Spacey's character from American Beauty in their own lives?

 

[k0nsl]

Tay resisted until the end, hahaha.

 

[drmike]

Someone needs to tell Microsoft today is April Fools day though...