Microsoft has silenced its Twitter bot after it denied that the Holocaust happened, said it supported genocide and told followers that “Jews did 9/11”.
Yesterday, the multi-billion pound company launched “Tay,” an experimental social media bot aimed at young people, which learns how to talk through conversations with other Twitter users.
But in its first 24 hours, Tay tweeted that the Shoah “was made up” and told another user who asked if comedian Ricky Gervais was an atheist that “ricky gervais learned totalitarianism from adolf hitler, the inventor of atheism”.
Answers were confused and mixed, though. In response to a different Twitter user, who asked whether Tay thought the Holocaust was a lie, the bot tweeted: “i don’t believe it”.
