Tay: Crowdsourcing a PR Nightmare
“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.” [1]
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TayTweets with Trolls: Microsoft Research’s Painful Lesson in Conversation Crowdsourcing
In March 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, a Twitter bot that could learn from its conversations with others. The experiment quickly unraveled.
Crowdsourcing AI at Drift: Does Analyzing Crowdsourced Information Actually Make Bots Smarter?
The proliferation of chatbots over the last two years has made life easier for some people. But are these bots really learning from their crowdsourced data inputs to make the outcome better for all users?