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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tay was a tad different than simply scraping Twitter as it learned based off responses and there was a concerted effort to troll it and make it racist.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd argue there is a decades old concerted effort to troll and make racist the entire world wide web, by very dedicated actors no less.