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Learning from Tay’s introduction

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Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#41
> Unfortunately, in the first 24 hours of coming online, a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay.

This was a missed opportunity for a corporation to say "for the lulz" in an official communication, and then provide a definition.

Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#43

Is the vulnerability they're talking about just having her repeat what you tell her to say? Because that's some oversight....

No joke. Did they really not see what happened to Coca-Cola?

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/05/coca-cola-ma...

Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#44

Anyone 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?....

I didn't catch it on HN, and I pretty much only check the boardgames subreddit on reddit now, so yeah, I guess that qualifies as living under a rock.

Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#45
post #8

This 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 int…

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Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#46
post #8

This 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 int…

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Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#47
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tay_tweets has lots of examples, most of them 4chan-level. These few are completely different and certainly interesting: https://i.imgur.com/iVof3D4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/YwlfwyL.png https://i.imgur.com/IlpFUiZ.png (though it's hard to confirm they're legit, as Retr0spectrum points out).

I think the second one was fake.

You're probably right, even though I want to believe it wasn't.

Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#48
Bahahaahhahahahaha. O-our chatbot got taken advantage of! We were completely blind that this could possibly happen! But they're the worst of humanity, the people that found an exploit not the engineers who are incapable of implementing even simple safeguards!!

Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#49
Bahahaahhahahahaha. O-our chatbot got taken advantage of! We were completely blind that this could possibly happen! But they're the worst of humanity, the people that found an exploit not the engineers who are incapable of implementing even simple safeguards!!

Re: Learning from Tay’s introduction

#50
post #13

This reads like science fiction: Learning from Somebot's introduction. Last week we deployed Somebot to $location. Our confidence in Somebot was high because we had thought about all likely scenarios in our comfortable offices. We are deeply sorry and assume the full responsibility from Somebot's actions. Moving forward we will make sure to include safeguards to reduce the amount of pain caused by Somebot's deploymen…

because we had thought about all likely scenarios in our comfortable offices.

Or because they had real world experience with another bot in a similar situation:

"In China, our XiaoIce chatbot is being used by some 40 million people, delighting with its stories and conversations."

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