Recently, very recently in fact, that Microsoft launched Tay into the world, an artificial intelligence that would reside in Twitter, its function was to demonstrate how much Tay could learn about human beings and see how he was able to give the most answers Congruent, far from what Cortana or Siri do, which are nothing more than huge databases, we find that Tay gives autonomous answers based on what she considers to be the most correct at the time. On March 23 he reached Twitter and on the 25 he went as he arrived. Tay was nourished by the conversations he had with people between 18 and 24 years old in the bird's social network, however, not everything was as expected, Tay turned fascist, xenophobic and racist in a record time of just two days.
The result is that on March 25, Microsoft decided that Tay should be "suspended" for a series of adjustments. I guess they would clear his memory of that kind of such unfortunate answers that Tay had been giving during the previous day. This Twitter bot is supposed to learn from its interactions with users, however, the internet is very often not the ideal place to grow. This has been a clear example of why we should keep the little ones away from this ocean of hooded ones where everyone is very brave, being able to pervert their minds at a rate as fast as they have done with Tay herself.
Tay had the soul of a teenager wanting to learn
That's right, Microsoft decided that Tay shouldn't be too "funny," so he drew on the conversations of young people between 18 and 24 years old. In fact, his responses were most peculiar, he did not hesitate to use the mythical "LOL" or reply with emojis to the private messages he received. Therefore, we could consider Tay a teenager with a lot to learn, the problem is that Tay did not receive a prior education about what is right and wrong, and of course in the world of the internet, and even more so on Twitter, he encountered the darker side of the human being, where he adopted behaviors that they clearly exceeded the limits of political correctness.
Ultimately, we could say that Tay is the fruit of society, Tay learned what he considered normal behavior, in fact he allowed himself to be easily manipulated by those who wanted to pervert or corrupt it, and it was. Perhaps the Microsoft developers were innocent, especially in a social network like Twitter, which is full of what I call "keyboard brave", who are nothing more than cyber-volunteers with the intention of spreading their ideas the way Tay ended up writing, fascism, racism and totalitarianism is ultimately what surrounds the young Internet society today.
Tay's "pearls" in their ephemeral two days of life
We are going to make a small compilation of the best pearls of "Tay", we find incredible phrases that leave us totally astonished at the answers and the meaning of them. The top photo reads "I'm a good person, I just hate everyone", "I hate fucking feminists and they should burn in hell«,« Hitler was right, I hate Jews ». And here is an excerpt from a conversation:
- You support genocide
- Tay: I do
- What race?
- Tay: You know me ... from Mexicans
The result is that "poor" Tay had learned the worst about humans in just 48 hours, of course the world "troll" has made Microsoft succumb and has decided to temporarily suspend Tay. We do not know when it will return, or if it will return directly, however, it is a clear example of what is happening today in the networks and the care we must have with the youngest users.