Lumifer comments on What can we learn from Microsoft's Tay, its inflammatory tweets, and its shutdown? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 March 2016 01:07:03AM 1 point [-]

How the 4chan crowd interacted with it. That seems hard to test beforehand.

First, no, not hard to test. Second, the 4chan response is entirely predictable.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 28 March 2016 01:58:49AM *  1 point [-]

A Youtube guy, Sargon of Akkad, had an analysis of previous interactive internet promo screwups. A long list. I hadn't heard of them. Microsoft should be in the business of knowing such things.

https://youtu.be/Tv74KIs8I7A?t=14m24s

History should have been enough of an indicator if they couldn't be bothered to do any actual Enemy Team modeling on different populations on the internet that might like to fuck with them.