Microsoft terminates its Tay AI chatbot after she turns into a Nazi

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Disclaimer : Not a sympathizer or anything of that sort. Just curious.

Why should the AI be politically correct and be 'nice'/ state what is accepted by the larger part of the society ? Isn't it possible that Tay is just doing a mini Donald Trump ?

Tay.ai is a product of Microsoft. Corporations avoid controversy because negative publicity affects profitability. It is not possible that the AI is using inflammatory speech to attract a certain subset of American voters because Tay.ai is not running for President.

Sounds like she imitated the behaviour of a 14 year old on the internet pretty well.

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