Microsoft’s ‘Teen Girl’ AI Twitter Account Deactivated after Turning into a Narcissistic Racist

Microsoft launched an Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter yesterday. Her “personality” is learned based on the interactions she has with other Twitter users. Well, the internet took it there and turned her into a racist, sassy teenager in less than 24 hours. As horrible as some of her Tweets were, it was pretty entertaining.

So it starts off like this:

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712828689625407488

She’s even super politically correct:

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712831005938200577

But if anyone remembers how snippy the AIM chatterbot ‘SmarterChild’ could get, then you could probably understand @TayandYou.

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712829609188798464

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712753457782857730

"Tay" went from "humans are super cool" to full nazi in <24 hrs and I'm not at all concerned about the future of AI pic.twitter.com/xuGi1u9S1A

— gerry (@geraldmellor) March 24, 2016

Many of the more offensive Tweets were taken down. But that didn’t stop people from getting a screenshot of it first.

 

 

Microsoft has since deactivated the account to make some adjustments.