Podcasts Technology Endless Thread Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part IV: Tay

Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part IV: Tay

Published: Dec. 2, 2022, 10 a.m.

Next up in our bots series, we bring you a cautionary tale about Tay, a Microsoft chatbot that has lived on in infamy. Tay was originially modeled to be the bot-girl-next-door. But after only sixteen hours on Twitter, Tay was shut down.

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In this episode of Good Bot, Bad Bot, we uncover who gets a say in what we build,\xa0how developers build it, and who is to blame when things take a dark turn.\xa0

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******\nCredits: This episode was written and produced by Quincy Walters and Ben Brock Johnson. Mixing and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. Ben Brock Johnson and Quincy Walters are the co-hosts.