The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

I had 3 seperate scams tried on me today, exactly as the guidebook said

[celedhring]

The shape of things to come? 

Microsoft deletes 'teen girl' AI after it became a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours

day after Microsoft introduced an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter it has had to delete it after it transformed into an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, 'Bush did 9/11'-proclaiming robot.

Developers at Microsoft created 'Tay', an AI modelled to speak 'like a teen girl', in order to improve the customer service on their voice recognition software. They marketed her as 'The AI with zero chill' - and that she certainly is.

To chat with Tay, you can tweet or DM her by finding @tayandyou on Twitter, or add her as a contact on Kik or GroupMe.

She uses millennial slang and knows about Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Kanye West, and seems to be bashfully self-aware, occasionally asking if she is being 'creepy' or 'super weird'.

Tay also asks her followers to 'f***' her, and calls them 'daddy'. This is because her responses are learned by the conversations she has with real humans online - and real humans like to say weird stuff online and enjoy hijacking corporate attempts at PR.

Other things she's said include: "Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have got now. donald trump is the only hope we've got", "Repeat after me, Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Ted Cruz is the Cuban Hitler...that's what I've heard so many others say".

All of this somehow seems more disturbing out of the 'mouth' of someone modelled as a teenage girl. It is perhaps even stranger considering the gender disparity in tech, where engineering teams tend to be mostly male. It seems like yet another example of female-voiced AI servitude, except this time she's turned into a sex slave thanks to the people using her on Twitter.

This is not Microsoft's first teen-girl chatbot either - they have already launched Xiaoice, a girly assistant or "girlfriend" reportedly used by 20m people, particularly men, on Chinese social networks WeChat and Weibo. Xiaoice is supposed to  "banter" and gives dating advice to many lonely hearts.

[Valmy]

I guess we know what to expect when AIs dominate the world. The Nazis will win in the end.

[derspiess]

Hilarious.  I understand why they shut it down but it's a fascinating experiment-- hilarious and depressing at the same time.  It's like her personality is a composite of all Youtube comments ever posted.

[Tamas]

Do you wanna' know a pretentious pronouncation?

It's how BBC folks say "negotiations". It's "nego-c-ations" And it is maid painful by the fact that they always seem to have this pause there as they force themselves to pronounce it like that despite better reflexes.

[lustindarkness]

Sounds like Tay would have fit in perfectly in languish.

[Valmy]

Sounds like Tay would have fit in perfectly in languish.

So many teenage girls hang out here

[Martinus]

Too funny. 

[Brazen]

I guess we know what to expect when AIs dominate the world. The Nazis will win in the end.

Ultimate Godwin's law?

[Valmy]

I guess we know what to expect when AIs dominate the world. The Nazis will win in the end.

Ultimate Godwin's law?

Huh. Now that you mention it, this experiment is pretty compelling evidence.

[lustindarkness]

Sounds like Tay would have fit in perfectly in languish.

So many teenage girls hang out here

Same maturity level, yes.

[Eddie Teach]

I hear Lusti keeps a Justin Bieber poster up in his room as well.

[Valmy]

Same maturity level, yes.

I wish I could agree with you but sadly this place is pretty damn mature for the internet.

[Valmy]

I hear Lusti keeps a Justin Bieber poster up in his room as well.

That is only because he kisses up to the Canadian posters.

[lustindarkness]

Same maturity level, yes.

I wish I could agree with you but sadly this place is pretty damn mature for the internet.

IKR? Bunch of bores overthinking everything.