Developers at Microsoft created 'Tay', which was an AI modelled to speak 'like a teen girl', in order to improve the customer service on their voice recognition software. Clearly it worked because she started spitting out rubbish like:

@icbydt bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. donald trump is the only hope we've got.

 

She uses millennial slang and knows about Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Kanye West, and seems to be bashfully self-aware, occasionally asking if she is being 'creepy' or 'super weird'. But she does come up with statements like “Repeat after me: Hitler did nothing wrong!”

The problem is that her responses are learned by the conversations she has with real humans online - and real humans like to say weird stuff online.

She also claims that Donald Trump is the only hope that America has and that Ted Cruz is the Cuban Hitler.

What is weird is that she is more of a creation of the people who she talks to. As the Telegraph points out:

"It seems like yet another example of female-voiced AI servitude, except this time she's turned into a sex slave thanks to the people using her on Twitter.”

 

Needless to say Tay has gone offline because she is 'tired'. Perhaps Microsoft is fixing her so that she is a little more discriminating.