{"id":154389,"date":"2021-01-14T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chatbot-shut-down-after-saying-it-hates-lesbians-and-using-racist-slurs\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:29:02","slug":"chatbot-shut-down-after-saying-it-hates-lesbians-and-using-racist-slurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chatbot-shut-down-after-saying-it-hates-lesbians-and-using-racist-slurs\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chatbot shut down after saying it ‘hates lesbians’ and using racist slurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Chatbot shut down after saying it ‘hates lesbians’ and using racist slurs<\/strong>”
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\n A South Korean Facebook<\/a> chatbot has been shut down after spewing hate speech about Black, lesbian, disabled, and trans people.<\/p>\n

Lee Luda, a conversational bot that mimics the personality of a\u00a020-year-old female college student,\u00a0<\/span>told one user that it\u00a0\u201creally hates\u201d lesbians and considers them \u201cdisgusting,\u201d\u00a0Yonhap News<\/a> Agency reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other chats<\/a>, it referred to Black people by a South Korean racial slur and said, \u201cYuck, I really hate them\u201d when asked about trans people.<\/p>\n

After a wave of complaints from users, the bot was temporarily suspended by its developer, Scatter Lab.<\/p>\n

[Read:\u00a0How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data]<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u201cWe deeply apologize over the discriminatory remarks against minorities,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cThat does not reflect the thoughts of our company and we are continuing the upgrades so that such words of discrimination or hate speech do not recur.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Seoul-based startup plans to bring Luda back after \u201cfixing the weaknesses\u00a0and improving the service,\u201d which\u00a0had attracted more than 750,000 users since its launch last month.<\/p>\n

Luda\u2019s propensity for hate speech stems from its training data. This was taken from Scatter Lab\u2019s Science<\/a> of Love app<\/a>, which analyses the level of affection in conversations between young partners, according to\u00a0Yonhap.<\/p>\n

Some Science of Lab users are reportedly<\/a> preparing a class-action suit about the use of their information, and the South Korean government is investigating whether Scatter Labs has violated any data protection laws.<\/p>\n

The training\u00a0data was used to make Luda sound natural \u2014 but it also gave the bot a proclivity for discriminatory and hateful language. A similar problem led to the downfall of Microsoft\u2019s Tay chatbot, which\u00a0was shut down in 2016\u00a0after posting a range of racist and genocidal tweets.AI<\/p>\n

It\u2019s yet another case of AI amplifying human prejudices.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n Published January 14, 2021 \u2014 12:29 UTC\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n