This imgur album provides a good overview of the kinds of interactions that occurred before the shutdown:
http://imgur.com/gallery/VhlAW
From what I understand the bot started interacting with /pol/ (4chan) - and I guess - /b/ as well.
Learning from Tay’s introduction
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#22Is the vulnerability they're talking about just having her repeat what you tell her to say? Because that's some oversight....
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#23This leads me to wonder if there is less effort put into trolling on the Chinese Internet. Does anyone with experience in both internets (weebo & twitter for instance) have anything to share?
Also does anyone know of some good English language digests of what is happening on the Chinese Internet? I was really interested by brother orange when that happened, and only knew kind of late.
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#24Anyone see this in action? What sort of vulnerability was being exploited? What types of things was the chatbot saying?
The bot learned from interacting with users. A bunch of people took to bombarding Tay with racist/sexist/antisemitic remarks which worked their way into its vocabulary. I'm not sure if you could really call it a vulnerability as this is pretty much what the bot was designed to do. It's more of a flaw in the inability to properly filter the content that works its way into the AI.
Yeah, I think them calling it a "vulnerability" makes the entire post seem disingenuous.
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#25Anyone see this in action? What sort of vulnerability was being exploited? What types of things was the chatbot saying?
Have you been living under a rock?....
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#26Or: We are in a bubble in Redmond and thinking we know best and how products work we bounced around emails and thought it would be a good testing idea based on results in China (a controlled market where it is nearly impossible speak up). AI buzz is hot these days so our marketing team also backed it up and we decided it would be great from a PR perspective to capture some of the buzz around AlphaGo. Boy were we so w…
Or no one in Microsoft feels free to speak up when they see a bad idea coming down the road so something like this just sails through instead of getting flagged. I've seen it -- not this big of scale, but I've seen it.
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#27Microsoft seems perpetually five to seven years behind the culture. You can see it in their ads, their product names, their outreach. Ironically it can actually be quite lucrative.
I remember talking to people in the music group about MySpace (I was not an employee). They looked at me funny. Ten minutes later someone finally said "You keep pronouncing the product wrong. It's called MSN Spaces."
The people working on MSN Spaces -- specifically musician outreach -- hadn't heard of MySpace. That very week MySpace sold for $580 million. After it sold, I saw the same guy in another meeting. He STILL hadn't heard of it, nor taken the time to check it out.
There's a certain stupidity that each of the big tech companies foster. This particular flavor is Microsoft's and with the chatbot here it rings again. This one was so obvious... and so preventable.
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#28Is there any other evidence of this being a coordinated attack?
/pol/ found cool new thing, proceeded to mess with it for laughs.
I wouldn't characterize it as a 'coordinated attack'.
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#29This reads like an apologee... But what is there to apologize for? They said that Tay was meant for entertainment, and I doubt that any wholesome varient would be a tenth of the hilarity of a neo-nazi sex crazed chat bot.
Many of her tweets were pretty inflammatory, this response seems appropriate - not overdone, and concise, which is sometimes a stretch for large corporations like Microsoft.
I agree that the bot was highly entertaining and met this criteria exceedingly well, but not for the reasons its creator intended. I do suspect there are some interesting AI applications actually going on behind the scenes, and would still be interested to see what the bot can do without all the vitriol. See for example this tweet: https://imgur.com/iVof3D4.jpg.
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#30> people exploited a vulnerability in Tay Which vulnerability are they talking about?
Obviously buffer over follow in it's PC engine.