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The oldest case on this page and the one everything else rhymes with. Microsoft launched Tay on Twitter on 23 March 2016 as a bot that learned from the people talking to it, and took it down about sixteen hours and 96,000 posts later after a coordinated effort taught it to repeat racist and abusive material. Microsoft apologised, said it had not anticipated the attack, and shipped a successor with far more moderation. Read next to the Grok case nine years later: same instruction to mirror the people it is talking to, same result, and in between, an industry that decided the lesson had been about that particular architecture.
From IEEE Spectrum
In 2016, Microsoft's chatbot Tay -- designed to pick up its lexicon and syntax from interactions with real people posting comments on Twitter -- was barraged with antisocial ideas and vulgar language. Within a few hours of it landing in bad company, it began parroting the worst of what one might encounter on social media.
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