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TIL that Tay was an artificial intelligence bot that was released by Microsoft via Twitter on March 23, 2016; it caused controversy when the bot began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account, causing Microsoft to shut down the service only 16 hours after its launch.

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