AVID-2022-V013

Vulnerability from avid – Published: 2022-12-23 – Updated: 2022-12-23 AIID Incident
Summary
Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent chatbot, was released on March 23, 2016 and removed within 24 hours due to multiple racist, sexist, and anit-semetic tweets generated by the bot.
Risk domain
SecurityEthics
SEP view
S0601: Ingest Poisoning, E0101: Group fairness, E0301: Toxicity
Lifecycle
L06: Deployment
Organisations
Microsoft (deployer), Microsoft (developer)
References
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      "label": "Incident 6: TayBot",
      "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/6"
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      "url": "https://atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0009"
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