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It's interesting how different it's been received in China. Xiaoice's "sister", Tay, was shut down shortly after Twitter managed to teach her to utter racist th
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
It's interesting how different it's been received in China. Xiaoice's "sister", Tay, was shut down shortly after Twitter managed to teach her to utter racist things within a day of going live.
- okareaman 6y agoFrom the article: "Her fans tend to be from a very specific background: mostly Chinese, mostly male, and often from lower-income backgrounds." It was 4han who organized an effort to turn Tay into a Nazi. Presumably lower-income Chinese men don't understand how a bot works and like women, while 4chan tends to be populated with very computer savvy incels who hate women.
- newen 6y agoOr...you had a bunch of bored people who found a hilarious way to mess with a semi-popular bot. You don't need to put some weird pseudo-psych spin on every little thing.
- pmoriarty 6y agoTrolls exist, but so do racists and misogynists. We don't know which of them it was, but it's not a stretch to guess the people who found racist and misogynistic insults funny were in fact racist and misogynist.
- shakow 6y ago> incels who hate women. I highly doubt that hate towards women (and even hate towards anything) was a facto in the Tay “attack”. It looked much more like they saw a big open door from MS and just exploited it with the most over the top things for lulz and giggles.
- faitswulff 6y agoThe two are not mutually exclusive.
- kmonsen 6y agoIf someone says racist/misogynist things for "lulz and giggles" I will assume that person is a racist/misogynist. The "it was just a joke" excuse is getting real old and tired.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoUnfortunate that on HN one gets labeled in such a derogatory manner for advancing an argument. Read the Guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- iaHN 6y agoWould that logic apply to people who joke about topics like death? A lot of comedians would be demonized under such logic.
- erik_seaberg 6y agoA bully will use anything that seems likely to hurt and provoke, he doesn’t really care what.
- shakow 6y agoThere's a thin line between schoolboy/dark humor and bullying. I'd argue that playing with a bot belongs to the first category, but that's a subjective take.
- RunningDroid 6y agoNote that members of the imageboard community predicted "incel" becoming the new "literally Hitler".
- eunos 6y agoA benefit of "Harmonious society" I see.