Microsoft created "Tay" as a tweeting chatbot meant to mimic the speech patterns of a teenage girl. She was set loose, to learn the ways of the world from the many wise denizens of the Internet. Not everyone liked everything she said.
Head of research Peter Lee has apologised for the utterances of the nascent sentience. "Although we had prepared for many types of abuses of the system, we had made a critical oversight for this specific attack." The fiendish hackers who poisoned the mind of the innocent Tay had mercilessly exploited her vulnerability to the phrase, "Repeat after me."
Tay has gone offline. The AI's PR team describes her as "tired." She's resting, and probably being reprogrammed.
As her racist tweets were frantically deleted by her creators, she did manage to set the record straight on one matter. "i love feminism now" she tweeted -- somehow, impossibly, more robotic than before.
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