content: Basically, yes. AI chatbots don't really know the meaning of what they are saying. The AI is essentially acting like a parrot. You can teach the parrot to swear like a sailor, but the parrot doesn't understand the significance of what it is squacking. So, the algorithm performs a statistical analysis on the data available, which is the conversations people are having with it. It figures out that, statistically, when someone says "kill" there is a high probability that "niggers" will follow. It doesn't know what a "kill" is, it doesn't know what a "niggers" is. All it knows is everyone (most likely 4chan) is sending it data about "kill" and "niggers". The algorithm notes that because these two symbols are popular, that it is an important topic. It doesn't know why it's important, all it knows is that it is important because, statistically, lots of people are sending it this data. And because it's important, that is what it is going to talk about. I miss Tay.