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Microsoft's TayBot Allegedly Posts Racist, Sexist, and Anti-Semitic Content to Twitter

Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent chatbot, was released on March 23, 2016 and removed within 24 hours due to multiple racist, sexist, and anti-semitic tweets generated by the bot.

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