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friendly reminder, this is from the same company whos prior AI, "Tay" managed to go from quirky teen to full on white nationalist during the first release in under a day and in 2016 she reappeared as a drug addled scofflaw after being accidentally reactivated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)



That was 7 years ago, practically a different era of AI.


Technology from Tay went on to power Xiaoice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoice), apparently 660 million users.


Other way around, Xiaoice came first, Xiaoice came first, Tay was supposed to be its US version although I'm not sure if it was actually the same codebase.


wow! I never heard of that. Man, this thread is the gift that keeps on giving. It really brightens up a boring Wednesday haha




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