what the fuck are the AIs getting from the internet now

Many of you know the story of Tay.ai, but did you know it revived after the shutdown? Microsoft launched the AI-powered bot, called Tay, in 2016. It was hidden behind the avatar of a 19-year-old girl. The idea was that Tay would respond to tweets and chats and learn from the general public’s tweets. But something went wrong, and after 16 hours of the launch, Tay turned into a racist and sexist monster.


Actually, Tay was able to handle a variety of tasks, for example, joking with users, suggesting comments to the pictures you send her, telling stories, playing a game, and mirroring users’ statements back to them. Naturally, one of the first things online users taught Tay was how to make offensive and racist statements. Microsoft had to bring it offline, and Tay became kind of an AI legend.

However, one week later, Tay came back. She surprisingly came online and started posting drug related tweets, showing that her dark side was alive. Soon, she went offline again, and her account became private.

BTW, previously, Microsoft had launched a schoolgirl chatbot called Rinna. She fell into a deep depression and…began fielding some questions about Hitler.