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Microsoft's Tay chatbot posts racist and genocidal tweets within 16 hours of launch

Designed to learn from Twitter users, Tay was manipulated into denying the Holocaust and praising Hitler within a day, becoming the earliest widely cited AI safety failure of the social-media era.

Severity: Mediumtaymicrosoftpoisoningchatbot

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blogs.microsoft.comhttps://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-introduction/

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