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user-inactivated  ·  2919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft brought its Twitter AI back online only to see it rapidly devolve into a drug abusing spambot

I think I read in a press release somewhere that they built a lot of fail safes into the bot, but for some reason they didn't forsee this particular scenario play out. I don't know a lot about these things, but I find that a bit hard to believe. I mean, 4chan loves pulling shit like this.