buybuydandavis comments on What can we learn from Microsoft’s Tay, its inflammatory tweets, and its shutdown?

[buybuydandavis]

if this wasn’t an intentional PR stunt

I assign very low probability to MSoft wanting a to release a Nazi AI as a PR stunt, or for any other purpose.

[skeptical_lurker]

All publicity is good… even a Nazi AI? I mean, its obvious that they didn’t intentionally make it a Nazi. Maybe one of the engineers wanted to draw attention to AI risk?