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Microsoft scrambles to limit PR damage over abusive AI bot Tay | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
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Microsoft reactivates Twitter bot 'Tay', and it promptly tweets about smoking weed in front of cops - The Daily Dot
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Microsoft artificial intelligence 'chatbot' taken offline after trolls tricked it into becoming hateful, racist
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Tay the 'teenage' AI is shut down after Microsoft Twitter bot starts posting genocidal racist comments that defended HITLER one day after launching | Daily Mail Online
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