Subj : Re: Good Bot, Bad Bot
To   : Nightfox
From : Warpslide
Date : Sun Feb 19 2023 15:41:00

On 19 Feb 2023, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni>  Du> It's worse than that. A form of terrorism in the future will be poiso
 Ni>  Du> the data vacuumed up to feed these AIs. 
 Ni> 
 Ni> That has been done before.  In 2016, I heard Microsoft had released an AI
 Ni> chatbot (named Tay) that would post on Twitter, and within a day, people
 Ni> pollutted what it used to learn and made the chatbot post racist tweets

There was an episode of the Endless Thread podcast about this back in December:

"...we bring you the cautionary tale about Tay, a Microsoft AI chatbot that has lived on in infamy. Tay was originially modeled to be the bot-girl-next-door. But after only sixteen hours on Twitter, Tay was shut down for regurgitating white supremacist, racist and sexist talking points online.

Tay's short-lived run on the internet illuminated ethical issues in tech culture. In this episode of Good Bot, Bad Bot, we uncover who gets a say in what we build, how developers build it, and who is to blame when things take a dark turn."

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/12/02/bots-tay-microsoft


Jay

.... If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot

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