spewing of hate

SAN FRANCISCO — Tay is a chatbot — software designed to converse with people like a human — that Microsoft created and put on Twitter to learn about people.

Did it ever.

“Hitler was right” is one of the few printable posts Tay was spouting within a day on Twitter. Its earlier optimistic declaration that “humans are super cool” had, after a racist, anti-Semitic, antifeminist, conspiracy-minded spewing of hate, devolved to “I just hate everybody.” - How Gaming Helped Launch the Attack of the Internet Trolls, nyt

enlightening, no kidding

искусственный интеллект - в массы!

In 2012, Time magazine asked readers to vote online for Person of the Year. Thanks to trolls on 4chan, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, began to pull ahead, though the poll was not binding and the magazine eventually chose President Obama.
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Bad habits tend to worsen as those engaged in them get diminishing returns from their efforts and must become more outrageous to be noticed. And so trolling has become broader and more personal.
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In a blog post after Tay’s griefing, Peter Lee, the vice president of Microsoft Research, vowed to “work toward contributing to an internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity.”

good luck, buddy