Microsoft Says Tay was Attacked

Microsoft issued an apology for the offensive things its artificial intelligence chatbot Tay said on Twitter. As reported Microsoft had to shutdown Tay because of offensive and racist Tweets uttered by Tay. Microsoft says in the statement that they tried to prevent this behavior through filters and stress-testing. Although Microsoft had prepared for many types of abuses of the system, the researched had made a critical oversight for this specific attack. Earlier reports depicted Tay as holding a mirror in front of all Twitter users, which resulted in Tay's behavior. It was a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay.