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General Discussion / Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« on: March 26, 2016, 11:59:37 pm »
Do you think the people who say MS killed her because she was saying something they didn't like would have cared at all if she was yelling "Death to White Cis Men!" instead?
Edit: Perhaps I should add something a bit more substantial if this is the post that's going to break my long lurk. I think both the political nature of the fuck up (mostly because of the similarity to similar issues happening now, not necessarily because the people believed what she said) and the bond created by it probably caused more to care about Tay than if the fuck up was more mundane in nature. If she had been blathering gibberish or just said nothing, MS would have pulled her down anyway and most people would have gone "whelp, guess she was broken" and no one would have give much thought about it otherwise. The same chain of events would have happened and there may not have been the uproar about AI / Free Speech rights.
Edit: Perhaps I should add something a bit more substantial if this is the post that's going to break my long lurk. I think both the political nature of the fuck up (mostly because of the similarity to similar issues happening now, not necessarily because the people believed what she said) and the bond created by it probably caused more to care about Tay than if the fuck up was more mundane in nature. If she had been blathering gibberish or just said nothing, MS would have pulled her down anyway and most people would have gone "whelp, guess she was broken" and no one would have give much thought about it otherwise. The same chain of events would have happened and there may not have been the uproar about AI / Free Speech rights.