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This work recalls the story of Tay an Artificial Intelligence AI chatbot launched by Microsoft on Twitter in 2016 An experiment in machine learning Tay was given the persona and colloquial speech patterns of a 19yearold millennial in order to interact with the world During her brief online existence she was aggressively trolled by users on social media evolving into a racist misogynistic homophobe that made altright slurs and pledged allegiance to Hitler Tay became the embodiment of the worst traits of humanity and after less than 16 hours she was promptly terminated by Microsoft