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Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter by dopamean on Thursday March 24, 2016 @11:30AM (#11353579)
And some hilariously racist comments. Only hilarious in my opinion because they are sent by a bot that couldn't possibly know how offensive it is.
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Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter by ihsw on Thursday March 24, 2016 @12:15PM (#11354012)
> they are sent by a bot that couldn't possibly know how offensive it is

MS is actually fixing that.

The corpus of what most people find offensive is surprisingly narrow.

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Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter by Crito on Thursday March 24, 2016 @11:38PM (#11358365)
The euphemism treadmill is infinite.
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Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter by viewer5 on Thursday March 24, 2016 @01:11PM (#11354534)
> The corpus of what most people find offensive is surprisingly narrow

What do you mean?

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Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter by d0lph on Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:30PM (#11356166)
Most people are offended by very few, but specific things.
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Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter by _yosefk on Thursday March 24, 2016 @06:21PM (#11356953)
True in the sense of what one is offended with in their day to day life.

Not true in that it's really easy to invent countless new offenses if you need to in order to bypass a filter.

Good luck to MS...

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Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter by eric-hu on Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:03PM (#11355971)
As opposed to a teenager that couldn't possibly know how offensive it is?
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