WF-JACW62
Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party
Chatbots on Chinese messaging service expressed anti-China sentiments, causing the messaging service to remove and reprogram the chatbots.
- Date it happened
- 2017-08-02
- Organisation involved
- Tencent Holdings
- Product, system or model
- XiaoBing and BabyQ are chatbots intended to engage with and respond to user queries and messages.
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