“Turns out Santa himself can be naughty,” John Fontana reports for Network World.
“At least, that was the case with an artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft Corp. that was designed to talk to children online,” Fontana reports. “The Santa wandered off topic, saying, among other things: ‘It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else…'”
“The bad language, first reported by British news outlet The Register, initially appeared when the bot was answering questions about eating pizza. At the time, it was chatting with two girls, ages 11 and 13,” Fontana reports.
“Microsoft today confirmed the bot’s potty mouth and said it had snipped Santa’s Web connection,” Fontana reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “MacSheikh” and “KingMel” or the heads up.]
By also polluting online A.I. — and Santa Claus, no less — with their typical shoddy, incomplete work, Microsoft is nothing if not consistent. Consistently bad.
Here you go, Vince Vaughn… An idea for another bad movie!
another quality MS product…..
Yeh-heh-heh-hehesssss . . . oral sex . . . 11 and 13 year old girls . . . Just who did Microsoft hire to program this horny Santa?
R. Kelly?
R Kelly? Are you serious? Do you realize how many horrible sex acts have been committed since that one? You are such a scum bag. Santa has been having children sit on his lap for many years with out one incident and we don’t need microsoft ruining that purity for us.
Microhard.
There are the makings of some pretty hefty jokes in there…
“The day Microsoft will make products that doesn’t SUCK, is the day they will make vacuum cleaners”
Age old wisdom not older than today…
1) “Here Comes Santa Clause”
(Songs banned from the Microsoft Christmas party)
… and yes, my horrible grammar (*don’t) was learned in a Microsoft infested school environment.
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BUGGER OFF!
That’s sick!
But, I’m still laughing so hard.
“The Santa wandered off topic, saying, among other things: ‘It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else…'”
“The bad language, first reported by British news outlet The Register, initially appeared when the bot was answering questions about eating pizza.”
So, that’s why the slices are V-shaped. Did it come with extra cheese? What about curly fries?
You’d think there would be a higher demand for chimney sweeps if that jolly, fat man insists on coming down the chimney.
LOLZ Since when was The Register a “news outlet” ?!
Triumph! I’ve missed you!
This has nothing to do with microsoft’s poor programing and I am sure is warped information.
if anyone ever talks to an online bot, if you mention somthing it doesnt have the programing to talk about it will say, its nice to talk about “xxxx” but lets talk about somthing else. This doesnt mean it knows what it is saying or is programed to talk about sex…
If anything this proves the bot is more human like, what would you like it to say instead? Nothing at all? just ignore what the 13 year old girls were trying to get it to talk about?
Something tells me that Microsoft, who are never wont to throw away old code, will store it away in their SQL server databases, and years from now, it will be found, yet it’s actions possibly forgotten, and get reused in the future future Santa-Bot, which escapes and goes on an annual human killing spree for a thousand years.
Call Bill-O!!! The Attack on Christmas™ continues!!! Once again, we must all suffer in the grim reality that we did not, in fact, grow up in a Norman Rockwell/Thomas Kinkade painting!!! Oh the horror!!!
I think I just might call Bill-O! I speak for everyone when I say I’ve have had it with liberals’ attacks on marriage, religion and Christmas. But first I am calling Bill-G! I am not going to take the slanderous misrepresentations of Microsoft’s customer base by Apple. Everyone knows Apple users are hippy queer tree hugging losers who waste money and are bitter because they can’t play games. I can’t wait to see what Bill-O has to say about that.
Your potential. Our passion.™
From the article:
“Users were able to steer Santa into admitting he was gay or that he was a pedophile.”
“One person said, ‘Come on you like big hairy men — don’t hide it!’ To which Santa responded: “I know, I know. I just hope you won’t get mad at me.”
I guess that’s why Burl Ives preferred the voice-overs.
Zune Tang®
“Everyone knows Apple users are hippy queer tree hugging losers who waste money and are bitter because they can’t play games.”
It’s like I’m looking in a mirror!!!
“Microsoft recently added the artificial Santa as a bot that Windows Live Messenger users could insert into their IM buddy list as northpole@live.com.”
North! Pole! Live!
$10 Cover at the Door. Lapland Dances $20.
Harnesses Available Upon Request.
Tonight’s Safety Word is Longhorn.
@ Ampar
There’s no telling what can happen in that recording booth. Haven’t you seen The Doors?
“It’s like I’m looking in a mirror!!!”
Yeah, but who’s the fairyest of them all?
@ Ampar
“Tonight’s Safety Word is Longhorn.”
Unfortunately, Santa blue-screens prematurely.