Russian Chatbot Supports Stalin and Violence

October 12, 2017

Russian technology company Yandex launched an artificially intelligent chat bot named Alice, which began providing responses advocating racism, Stalinist views, and violence.

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Alleged deployer: yandex
Alleged developer: yandex
Alleged harmed parties: yandex-users

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