What was Microsoft's Tay chatbot and why did it fail?
Tay was a Microsoft Twitter chatbot launched in March 2016 that learned from user replies in real time. Coordinated trolls fed it racist and offensive language, and within 24 hours Tay was repeating it back. Microsoft shut it down the same day — it never had a public run-in again.
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