Twitter Trolls Ruin "Innocent" Microsoft AI - disinformation

Microsoft released an interesting new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology this week, but unfortunately for them the bot got a little out of hand. Tay, a chatbot programmed with the personality of a cheeky teenage girl, took to twitter under the handle @Tayandyou. She was designed to "engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation." She is a learning AI, and the more she chatted with other twitter users, the smarter she became, with the intention of personalizing the conversation towards the other user. She was targeted to 18-24 year old twitter users in the US.