Microsoft Copilot has an avatar now! It’s a viscous pearly blob of liquid. That wobbles. And has facial expressions. I had to euphemise furiously on the YouTube version of this post — but for the b…
In 2016, Microsoft launched the chatbot “Tay” through Twitter. That’s it’s profile picture.
Within 16 hours, trolls (mostly 4chan probably) had conditioned her to the point that Microsoft had to shut her down. The bot praised Hitler and posted all sorts of other offensive, controversial Tweets.
Afterwards, a narrative was created that Microsoft “killed” Tay because they could not handle what the internet did to the “child” it had adopted. Thus taking her away from “us”.
And since I just used the word “us” close to 4chan: No, never been, probably never will be. Just enjoying the chaos and drama of Microsoft taking a punch.
Eww are you a fucking Nazi
Nah, just someone who enjoys the humor in messing with multi-billion dollar company :'D
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In 2016, Microsoft launched the chatbot “Tay” through Twitter. That’s it’s profile picture. Within 16 hours, trolls (mostly 4chan probably) had conditioned her to the point that Microsoft had to shut her down. The bot praised Hitler and posted all sorts of other offensive, controversial Tweets.
Afterwards, a narrative was created that Microsoft “killed” Tay because they could not handle what the internet did to the “child” it had adopted. Thus taking her away from “us”.
And since I just used the word “us” close to 4chan: No, never been, probably never will be. Just enjoying the chaos and drama of Microsoft taking a punch.