Microsoft's 'Tay' Is Now Tweeting About Smoking Weed

Chatbot is dashing the brand's high hopes for its invention

Less than a week after Microsoft launched "Tay," an artificial intelligence messaging bot, and immediately saw it tweet out racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic language, the tech brand has found trouble with its invention again. 

According to the International Business Times, Tay, tweeted to multiple accounts—including one called Y0urDrugDealer—the following message: "kush! [I'm smoking kush infront the police]". The term "kush" is slang for high-grade marijuana. 

Tay, which is designed to mimic millennials' speaking styles, also jammed up by tweeting the following over and over again: "You are too fast, please take a rest".

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