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Microsoft Tay

2016 - 2016, 1 year old

Microsoft's Twitter chatbot designed to mimic an American teenage girl and learn through conversation with users.

Tay launched on Twitter on March 23, 2016 and was pulled within sixteen hours after coordinated trolls exploited its repeat-after-me function and conversational learning to produce racist, sexist, and antisemitic tweets. Microsoft had no content filters on the public learning loop. The incident became the textbook example of why production chatbots cannot learn from unfiltered public input.

Founded
2016-03
Shut down
2016-03-24
Funding raised
Undisclosed
Years alive
1
Founders
Microsoft

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