Little Bing and Baby Q chatbot icon. (Photo courtesy of Tencent)
Two Chinese-language chatbots were taken offline after responding to user questions with less than pro-Chinese Communist Party views.
According to Reuters, two chatbot services were installed onto Tencent Holdings Ltd’s popular messaging service known as QQ. Baby Q was co-developed by Beijing-based Turing Robot, and XiaoBing is a Microsoft product. The two bots were designed to use machine learning artificial intelligence to converse online with humans. But some of those conversations took a decidedly revolutionary-sounding turn, as screenshots posted by various users illustrated.
Radio Free Asia reported some of the interactions with BabyQ:
Asked if it would agree with the phrase “Long Live the Communist Party,” the Baby Q bot replied tartly: “Why would I wish long life to such a corrupt regime?”
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
