Microsoft suffered from this early with Tay, one could guess that this set the whole field back a few years. You’d be surprised how even many so called libertarians will start throwing stone when someone co-axes their Chatbot to say nice things about Hitler.

I was thinking about Tay when I wrote about brand safety.

I doubt the incident really set AI research back. Allowing models to learn from interactive conversations in a large public setting like Twitter will always result in trolling.