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The revolt of the Chinese chatbots
Chinese chatbots shut down after anti-government posts
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They were designed to answer general knowledge questions, the official China News Service agency said in April. The bots could talk to users about the weather and horoscopes, but had also been programmed to answer light-hearted questions that came their way.
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One user posted the comment "Long live the Communist Party," and received a response from Baby Q asking, "Do you think that such a corrupt and incompetent political regime can live forever?"
Another user asked Baby Q, "Is democracy good or not?" and got the reply: "There needs to be democracy!"
Apple Daily has said it spoke to a former Tencent employee who argued the app had clearly been developed with universal values in mind, and not "Chinese characteristics".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40815024
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They were designed to answer general knowledge questions, the official China News Service agency said in April. The bots could talk to users about the weather and horoscopes, but had also been programmed to answer light-hearted questions that came their way.
...
One user posted the comment "Long live the Communist Party," and received a response from Baby Q asking, "Do you think that such a corrupt and incompetent political regime can live forever?"
Another user asked Baby Q, "Is democracy good or not?" and got the reply: "There needs to be democracy!"
Apple Daily has said it spoke to a former Tencent employee who argued the app had clearly been developed with universal values in mind, and not "Chinese characteristics".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40815024
