Less than one day after Microsoft Corp. released Tay, an artificially intelligent software chatbot that communicated through messages on social media services, the program went rogue. On Wednesday, Microsoft’s research arm launched the software on services run by Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc., Snapchat Inc., and Instagram. Hours later, it started spewing anti-Semitic rants, which Twitter users collected and posted on social media.
Source: Microsoft Muzzles Its Artificially Intelligent Twitter Persona – WSJ