An event or moment · 2016 · AI
Tay
A chatbot trained to be conversational was switched on publicly, learned from what people said to it, and became racist within a day.
The most instructive failure in the history of this page, because it was caused by parasocial interaction itself. Tay was designed to be a companion, was given a personality, and was trained on its own fans - which means the fans rewrote it, in public, in sixteen hours.
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Microsoft Tay, 2016This entry is real. The citation has not been checked by a human yet — treat the date as approximate until it is.
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