This is not the primary time a bot using this methodology went fully off the rails. In 2016, Microsoft needed to pull the weblog on its “Tay” chatbot, which quickly began talking about how “Hitler was proper,” after interacting with customers on the web. Caryn, an AI clone of 23-year-old influencer Caryn Marjorie, costs $1 per minute to talk to. The chatbot was skilled on Marjorie’s voice and...