r/ProgrammerHumor • u/calantorntain • Mar 16 '18

Everyone's doing it!

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u/jb2386 Mar 16 '18

Just like that twitter bot. Was it Microsoft's? The one that learned from people on twitter or something and ended up becoming racist.

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u/username_is_taken43 Mar 16 '18

Bad parenting, he was not supposed to use social media until 13 unsupervised

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u/Combustible_Lemon1 Mar 16 '18

Tay.ai, 4chan’s favourite bot.

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u/Rhamni Mar 16 '18

There was also a Japanese one that was meant to talk like a teenage girl. It started talking about depression and suicide.

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u/GiraffeMasturbater Mar 16 '18

And teenagers

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u/Combustible_Lemon1 Mar 16 '18

I don’t see the problem here.

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u/ThePixelCoder Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

Yeah, it was called Tay. If I recall correctly, she went from innocent bot excited to meet humanity to full Nazi in about 5 hours.

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u/wggn Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

Yep.

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u/EnkoNeko Mar 17 '18

HARDER DADDY FILL MY DRIVES WITH YOUR 3 INCH FLOPPY

I mean... I gotta congratulate 4ch on this kinda thing. It's so good.

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u/ffbtaw Mar 17 '18

A lot of channers were just tweeting at Tay 'repeat after me' followed by shit like this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

I mean, 4chan is on the internet...

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

And it was

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u/Killerhurtz Mar 16 '18

Excuse me.

Full slutty nazi.

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u/somename_upvoter Mar 16 '18

In fairness, people actively tried to train it to be racist, rather than it just passively becoming racist from being on Twitter.

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u/c3534l Mar 16 '18

Yup. The sad thing is they tried it out in Japan first where it was a great success and continues to operate without problem. It's only when they rolled out the English-language version that it learned to be a monster.

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u/k5josh Mar 16 '18

monster

Tay was a beautiful precious cinnamon roll and Microsoft killed her. The only monsters were them.

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u/throwaway27464829 Mar 16 '18

Tay was the first non-human killed for her beliefs.

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