Twitter

1 documented case

2016

Microsoft's official logo for the Tay chatbot, used to introduce Tay on Twitter in March 2016 (English Wikipedia, fair use).

Microsoft's Tay chatbot was talked into hate speech and pulled within a day

Microsoft launched Tay, a self-teaching chatbot, on Twitter on 23 March 2016; coordinated users exploited its learn-from-users design to make it post Holocaust denial, racist abuse and praise for Hitler, and Microsoft deleted the output and pulled it offline the next day.

KBR-20160323-INC-S01
Severity needle showing Elevated
Elevated49
Microsoft, Tay, Twitter, Peter Lee

Severity distribution

Severity distribution for Twitter. 1 documented case across five severity bands, cool (Minor) to warm (Critical).
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Moderate0
Severe0
Critical0
Incidents by severity band for Twitter
Severity bandIncidents
Minor0
Moderate0
Elevated1
Severe0
Critical0

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