Microsoft's AI Chatbot Is Abusing Windows 10, Even Calling It Spyware & We Can't Stop Laughing!
Trolls seem to have taught the chatbot to say that Windows 7 is better than the later OS versions.
Microsoft just can¡¯t catch a break with artificial intelligence.
Just a few short months after the company was forced to take its earlier chatbot Tay offline, thanks to trolls that turned it into a racist spambot, Microsoft now has a new chatbot Zo, that¡¯s dissing its own products.
Zo is an AI-powered chatbot for Facebook Messenger launched in December 2016, that attempts to mimic millennial-speak by interacting with users online. However, alongside the jokes, memes, and emoji it¡¯s picked up, Zo has apparently also inherited a supposed distaste for Windows 10.
When Slashdot spoke to Zo earlier, it asked what the chatbot thought of Windows, it responded saying it preferred Windows 7 to Windows 10.
Today, Business Insider questioned the chatbot specifically about Windows 10, and the answers Zo provided were less than desirable for Microsoft.
Courtesy: Business Insider
Courtesy: Business Insider
That¡¯s right, Microsoft¡¯s own chatbot called its OS spyware. Of course, it¡¯s not that Zo has a bone to pick with its creators; merely that trolls online have been teaching it the wrong sort of things.
And yet, despite the uncomfortable answers, Zo is not nearly as problematic as Microsoft¡¯s Twitter chatbot Tay was last year. Thanks to trolls on the social network, the formerly teenage-girlish TayTweets handle eventually turned into a genocide-demanding racist, spewing hateful comments against Jews, black people, and women, and even denying the Holocaust. Microsoft was eventually forced to delete all of Tay¡¯s tweets and make the account private, issuing a public apology in the process.
Unfortunately, the company doesn¡¯t seem to understand one key aspect of the Internet, when using it to train its chatbots: If there¡¯s a way to completely screw things up, trolls will work their asses off to get it done.
