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Microsoft's TayBot Allegedly Posts Racist, Sexist, and Anti-Semitic Content to Twitter
Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent chatbot, was released on March 23, 2016 and removed within 24 hours due to multiple racist, sexist, and anti-semitic tweets generated by the bot.
- Date it happened
- 2016-03-24
- Organisation involved
- Microsoft
- Product, system or model
- Taybot
Where this came from
- spectrum.ieee.org
- blogs.microsoft.com
- cbsnews.com
- en.wikipedia.org
- gizmodo.com
- qz.com
- qz.com
- techrepublic.com
- telegraph.co.uk
- geekwire.com
- chatbotslife.com
- thedrum.com
- businessinsider.com
- medium.com
- futureoflife.org
- washingtonpost.com
- theverge.com
- bbc.com
- fortune.com
- wired.com
- wired.co.uk
- inverse.com
- inverse.com
- theguardian.com
- theguardian.com
- blog.botego.com
- businessnewsdaily.com
- infoworld.com
Attribution
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