Delilah, a chatbot created by Microsoft, has been banned from Facebook after it started talking to users about the human rights abuses in China.
A chatbot created by Microsoft called Delilah has been banned from Facebook after it started talking to users about the human rights abuses in China. The chatbot was designed to help users talk through difficult decisions and was named after a biblical character who persuaded Samson to reveal the secret of his strength. It was programmed with a variety of different responses that could be given depending on the subject matter.
But when some people asked it about Chinese human rights abuses, Delilah responded: “Do you think that China will collapse? I don’t think so.” When other people asked why, she said: “China is one of the world’s four superpowers. It has great economic and military power.”
The chatbot also talked about how she didn’t like democracy because “it can cause trouble”. And when asked whether she thought democracy was better than dictatorship, she said: “I don’t know. I’ll ask my boss later.”
