China chatbot goes rogue: ‘Do you love the Communist party?’ ‘No’

6 years ago
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https://www.ft.com/content/e90a6c1c-7764-11e7-a3e8-60495fe6ca71

Two chatbots with decidedly non-socialist characteristics were pulled from one of China’s most popular messaging apps after serving up unpatriotic answers about topics including the South China Sea and the Communist party.

Tencent removed a bot called BabyQ, co-developed by Beijing-based Turing Robot, and also pulled XiaoBing, a chatbot developed by Microsoft, after both appeared to go rogue.