Article 5CT6A South Korean AI chatbot pulled from Facebook after hate speech towards minorities

South Korean AI chatbot pulled from Facebook after hate speech towards minorities

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Justin McCurry in Tokyo
from World news | The Guardian on (#5CT6A)

Lee Luda, built to emulate a 20-year-old Korean university student, engaged in homophobic slurs on social media

A popular South Korean chatbot has been suspended after complaints that it used hate speech towards sexual minorities in conversations with its users.

Lee Luda, the artificial intelligence [AI] persona of a 20-year-old female university student, was removed from Facebook messenger this week, after attracting more than 750,000 users in the 20 days since it was launched.

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