Microsoft chatbot Tay accidentally turned back on, spams Twitter

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 15:51 in Mathematics & Economics

Almost a week after being shut down for spewing racist and sexist comments on Twitter, Microsoft Corp's artificial intelligence 'chatbot' called Tay briefly rejoined Twitter on Wednesday only to launch a spam attack on its followers.

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