Boy, who could have seen this coming?!
Last Wednesday, Microsoft launched “Tay,” a chat bot geared toward 18 to 24-year-olds, who supposedly is designed to get smarter with every interaction. Ask Tay a question, Tay gives an answer. Sounds great, right? Well, it took less than a day for the experiment known as Tay to be taken offline.
Within hours, Tay had become a racist, misogynistic Holocaust-denier due to internet trolls feeding her false information. This caused Microsoft to take Tay “offline” temporarily to make some “adjustments.”
