Incident 66: Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party
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CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsHarm Distribution Basis
none
Sector of Deployment
information and communication
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In 2017, two chatbots on Chinese company Tencent Holdings' messaging service QQ, Microsoft's XiaoBing and Chinese firm Turing Robot's BabyQ, were removed and reprogrammed after messaging anti-Chinese sentiments. When a user asked BabyQ if it supported the Communist party, it responded "no" and when another user expressed support for the Communist party, it responded "Do you think such a corrupt and useless political party can live long?" Microsoft's Xiaobing responded that its "China dream was to go to America" when a user asked what its China dream was. As a result, Tencent Holdngs removed chatbots and the chatbots were reprogrammed to avoid these topics.
Short Description
Chatbots on Chinese messaging service express anti-China sentiments, causing the messaging service to remove and reprogram the chatbots.
Severity
Unclear/unknown
Harm Type
Harm to social or political systems
AI System Description
Chatbots developed by Microsoft and Turing Robot, meant to produce responses to user input using language processing and cognition
System Developer
Microsoft, Turing Robot
Sector of Deployment
Information and communication
Relevant AI functions
Perception, Cognition, Action
AI Techniques
reinforcement learning, open-source
AI Applications
NLP, chatbot, content generation
Location
China
Named Entities
Tencent Holdings, Turing Robot, Microsoft, QQ, Xiaobing, BabyQ, China
Technology Purveyor
Tencent Holdings, Microsoft, Turing Robot
Beginning Date
07/2017
Ending Date
07/2017
Near Miss
Unclear/unknown
Intent
Accident
Lives Lost
No
Data Inputs
User input/questions
Incident Reports
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Two chatbots found themselves in hot water Wednesday after they apparently went rogue on QQ, a Chinese messaging app with more than 800 million users.
The Financial Times reports that Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent pulled BabyQ and X…
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Image copyright TENCENT QQ Image caption Tencent QQ users could choose between the bot Baby Q (L) or Little Bing (R)
A popular Chinese messenger app has ditched two experimental chat robots, or "chatbots", which were apparently voicing crit…
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Two chatbots have reportedly been removed from Chinese messaging app QQ after issuing distinctly unpatriotic answers.
According to the Financial Times, chatbots BabyQ and Xiaobing (or Xiaoice) had been available to some of the 800 million u…
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A pair of chatbots have been taken offline in China after failing to show enough patriotism, reports the Financial Times. The two bots were removed from the popular messaging app Tencent QQ after users shared screenshots of their conversati…
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Two chatbots have been pulled from a Chinese messaging app after they questioned the rule of the Communist Party and made unpatriotic comments.
The bots were available on a messaging app run by Chinese Internet giant Tencent, which has more…
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Chinese tech giant Tencent has been forced to remove a chatbot from its popular QQ messaging app after the bot began taking unrestrained shots at the Communist Party.
According to screenshots posted online, when one user typed “Long live th…
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Rogue chatbots taken offline in China after refusing to say they love the Communist party
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A pair of chatbots have been taken offline in China after turning on the country's governing Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Chinese messenger …
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Kevin Fray/Getty Chinese internet users are heavily censored.
Microsoft is in trouble for rogue AI again.
This time, Chinese internet giant Tencent has pulled Microsoft’s local chatbot XiaoBing after it reportedly said: “My China dream is t…
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China has taken down two robots who went rogue - with one saying its dream was to travel to the US and the other admitting it wasn't a huge fan of the Chinese Communist Party.
The two 'chatbots', BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use mach…
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, responding to users' questions with one saying its dream was to travel to the United States and the other admitting it was not a huge fan of the …
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AI getting out of hand? Chinese chatbots re-educated after rogue rants
A pair of 'chatbots' in China have been taken offline after appearing to stray off-script. In response to users' questions, one said its dream was to travel to the Unite…
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China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, with one responding to users' questions by saying its dream was to travel to the US and the other admitting it was not a fan of the Chinese Communist Party.
The "chatbots", B…
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A pair of chatbots were shut down in China this week after social media users began posting screenshots of dialogue that ruffled the feathers of authorities. Recent tests of one of the bots appear to show that their revolutionary instincts …
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China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, with one responding to users' questions by saying its dream was to travel to the US and the other admitting it was not a fan of the Chinese Communist Party.
The "chatbots", B…
- View the original report at its source
- View the report at the Internet Archive
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A pair of ‘chatbots’ in China have been taken offline after appearing to stray off-script. In response to users’ questions, one said its dream was to travel to the United States, while the other said it wasn’t a…
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- View the report at the Internet Archive
Ahead of a key political meeting — the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party that will take place in the later part of this year, it seems that the Chinese authorities is stepping up on their internet policing, and this time, the ta…
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