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The sad story of an AI Twitter Bot

Let's present the classical example of Tay, which was presented as the first-ever AI Twitter bot created by Microsoft in 2016. Being operated by an AI algorithm, Tay was supposed to learn from the environment and keep on improving itself. Unfortunately, after living in cyberspace for a couple of days, Tay started learning from the racism and rudeness of ongoing tweets. It soon started writing offensive tweets of its own. Although it exhibited intelligence and quickly learned how to create customized tweets based on real-time events, as designed, at the same time, it seriously offended people. Microsoft took it offline and tried to re-tool it, but that did not work. Microsoft had to eventually kill the project. ...