Taylor Swift threatened Microsoft with legal action over its racist Tay chatbot

Taylor Swift threatened Microsoft with legal action over its racist Tay chatbot

Taylor Swift’s lawyers threatened to sue Microsoft over the company’s Tay chatbot. The Guardian reports that a new book by Microsoft president Brad Smith reveals lawyers for Taylor Swift weren’t happy with the company using the name Tay for its chatbot. Microsoft’s chatbot was originally designed to hold conversations with teenagers over social media networks, but Twitter users turned it into a racist chatbot in less than a day.

Smith checked his emails during a vacation and found out that Taylor Swift’s team was demanding a name change for the Tay chatbot. “An email had just arrived from a Beverly Hills lawyer who introduced himself by telling me: ‘We represent Taylor Swift, on whose behalf this is directed to you.’” The lawyers argued…

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Taylor Swift threatened Microsoft with legal action over its racist Tay chatbot
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