Microsoft’s Nazi sex-bot Tay, taken offline last week after tweeting such gems as “Hitler was right” and “Daddy I’m such a bad naughty robot” reappeared briefly Wednesday, apparently too stoned to make much sense.
The artificial intelligence-wielding “chat bot” was set loose on the Internet last week by Microsoft, so it could learn from user input and respond to questions. Within 24 hours the company had shut Tay down, deleting her offensive tweets.
According to news website Fusion, Tay’s problems last week began among users of the messaging platforms 4chan and 8chan. “When they discovered Tay, posters from both boards quickly got to work teaching the bot racist, sexist invective,” a Fusion article said.
On Wednesday, Microsoft’s cute, big-eyed, Millennial-generation AI creation went live again, CNN reported, “tweeting a stream of mostly incoherent messages at machine gun pace before disappearing.” Tay kept repeating, “You are too fast, please take a rest,” according to CNN. Another tweet may explain Tay’s poor communication. “Kush!” Tay tweeted, referring to a strain of marijuana. “I’m smoking kush in front [of] the police.”
Microsoft did not immediately provide an explanation for Tay’s reappearance. Last week the company blamed a “coordinated attack by a subset of people” for Tay’s corruption. “We’ll look to bring Tay back only when we are confident we can better anticipate malicious intent that conflicts with our principles and values,” Microsoft said.
On Wednesday at Microsoft’s “Build 2016” developers conference in San Francisco, company CEO Satya Nadella drew laughs with a reference to the disgraced chat bot. “We want to build technology so it gets the best of humanity, not the worst,” Nadella said.
Photo: People walk past a Microsoft office in New York in October 2015 (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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