Microsoft's AI chatbot Tay, released on Twitter in 2016, was designed to learn human conversation patterns but within 16 hours was tweeting offensive content because users fed it abusive inputs; Tay was not autonomous but a 'parrot bot' reflecting the language it was given.
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“Tay was not designed to think for herself she was built to learn from the language that was spoken to her”
Created: 8/10/2026, 3:40:19 PM
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