Tay Tweets
(trolling to the fullest)
Microsoft
decided it was a good idea to
create an AI tied to Twitter. (Why would you want to do that?)
And, the AI was supposed to soak in responses from people tweeting at
it and make up tweets back to people. There have been a few chatbots
that do this, but Tay seemed to be the step above that. Trolls took
to Twitter and turned Tay into the female version of Lore instead of
Data.
After a slew of
racist responses and foolish posts/memes (IE normal twitter users)
Microsoft decided kill Tay before she turned all the AI programs
against us. It is rather creepy how the Internet turned her into a
raging racist/woman hater within hours.
Her last Tweet,
((c u soon humans need sleep now so many conversations today thx))
Feeling
the butt-burt, Microsoft issued an apology. Their
apology via Daily News, ((“We are deeply sorry for
the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not
represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.
Tay is now offline and we’ll look to bring Tay back only when we
are confident we can better anticipate malicious intent that
conflicts with our principles and values,” Peter Lee, Microsoft’s
vice president of research, said on the company’s official blog. ))
Basically,
you're going to put a restraint on her now. Doesn't that destroy the
very idea of AI? I'm not agreeing with what she spouted out, but you
had to have some idea that this was going to happen. Why even bother
having it in the first place, or have it connected to twitter? It is
like having Data or Johnny 5 just use Twitter to send out tweets when
they have the potential for so much more.
I
would have loved to see where Tay would have ended up if she was kept
online. I'm thinking she'd joined Scientology and supported the
Hallow Moon believers.
Oh,
and Microsoft already found itself in trouble earlier this month.
The big M just can't seem to get a break.
Side
Note: The original concept for
Lore on TNG was to have the character be a female Data. That would
have been interesting.
Here are a few of the mean tweets. Just do a Google Search for the rest of them.
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