{"id":109595,"date":"2019-09-10T01:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T23:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/10\/taylor-swift-threatened-to-sue-microsoft-over-its-racist-chatbot-tay\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T01:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T23:05:27","slug":"taylor-swift-threatened-to-sue-microsoft-over-its-racist-chatbot-tay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109595","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift threatened to sue Microsoft over its racist chatbot Tay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsoft\u2019s president, the singer already had trademark issues with the company\u2019s US version of the Chinese chatbot XiaoIce, before it was plugged into Twitter \u2013 and became a Nazi.Taylor Swift has claimed ownership over many things. In 2015, she applied for trademarks for lyrics including \u201cthis sick beat\u201d and \u201cNice to meet you. Where you been?\u201d A few months later, she went further, trademarking the year of her birth, \u201c1989\u201d. We now know it didn\u2019t end there. A new book reveals that, a year later, Swift claimed ownership of the name Tay \u2013 and threatened to sue Microsoft for infringing it.In the spring of 2016, Microsoft announced plans to bring a chatbot it had developed for the Chinese market to the US. The chatbot, XiaoIce, was designed to have conversations on social media with teenagers and young adults. Users developed a genuine affinity for it, and would spend a quarter of an hour a day unloading their hopes and fears to a friendly, yet non-judgmental ear. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/shortcuts\/2019\/sep\/10\/taylor-swift-threatened-to-sue-microsoft-over-its-racist-chatbot-tay\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift threatened to sue Microsoft over its racist chatbot Tay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsoft\u2019s president, the singer already had trademark issues with the company\u2019s US version of the Chinese chatbot XiaoIce, before it was plugged into Twitter \u2013 and became a Nazi.Taylor Swift has claimed ownership over many things. In 2015, she applied for trademarks for lyrics including \u201cthis sick beat\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}