Web Semantics: Tay the Microsoft Chat-Bot

*Instantly swamped by trolls.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

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"Unfortunately, the conversations didn't stay playful for long. Pretty soon after Tay launched, people starting tweeting the bot with all sorts of misogynistic, racist, and Donald Trumpist remarks. And Tay — being essentially a robot parrot with an Internet connection — started repeating these sentiments back to users, proving correct that old programming adage: flaming garbage pile in, flaming garbage pile out.

"Tay" went from "humans are super cool" to full nazi in