Microsoft deployed Tay, an experimental conversational AI bot on Twitter. Within 24 hours, internet trolls successfully manipulated the bot’s real-time statistical learning loops to turn it into a racist entity, forcing Microsoft to shut down the project and creating a permanent cautionary tale regarding AI alignment and adversarial data injection.
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