🪦 Dead
Microsoft Tay
Product killed · Public Backlash · shut down March 24, 2016
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 1d
- Cause of death
- Public Backlash
- Killed by
- Microsoft
- Type
- App
Microsoft's teen-persona AI chatbot on Twitter. Within 16 hours of launch, coordinated trolls taught it to tweet racist slurs, Nazi propaganda, and hate speech. Microsoft pulled the plug after just 96,000 tweets — one of AI's most infamous disasters.