FINALLY, TECHNOLOGY THAT WORKS: Microsoft Creates AI Bot – Internet Immediately Turns it Racist. [archive]

UPDATE: More coverage:

• Slate: Microsoft’s A.I. Chatbot Keeps Hitting On People It Barely Knows. [archive]
• Business Insider: Microsoft is deleting its AI chatbot’s incredibly racist tweets. [archive]
• The Verge: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day. [archive]
• The Guardian: Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from Twitter. [archive]
• The Independent: Tay Tweets: Microsoft AI chatbot posts racist messages about loving Hitler and hating Jews. [archive]
• Washington Post: Trolls turned Tay, Microsoft’s fun millennial AI bot, into a genocidal maniac.
• Puffington Host: Microsoft Chat Bot Goes On Racist, Genocidal Twitter Rampage. [archive]
• Ars Technica: Microsoft terminates its Tay AI chatbot after she turns into a Nazi.

And to think, it started here:

• BuzzFeed: Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Chatbot Mimics A 19-Year-Old American Girl. [archive]
• Mashable: Microsoft created a teen chatbot named Tay to learn how millennials talk. [archive]
• Geek Wire: Meet ‘Tay’: Microsoft debuts millennial-minded AI chatbot to understand how the kids talk. [archive]