{"id":26797,"date":"2021-01-14T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T04:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/time-to-properly-socialise-hate-speech-ai-chatbot-pulled-from-facebook"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T04:24:14","slug":"south-korean-ai-chatbot-pulled-from-facebook-after-hate-speech-towards-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26797","title":{"rendered":"South Korean AI chatbot pulled from Facebook after hate speech towards minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Luda, built to emulate a 20-year-old Korean university student, engaged in homophobic slurs on social media<\/p>\n<p>A popular South Korean chatbot has been suspended after complaints that it used hate speech towards sexual minorities in conversations with its users.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Luda, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> [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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/time-to-properly-socialise-hate-speech-ai-chatbot-pulled-from-facebook\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Luda, built to emulate a 20-year-old Korean university student, engaged in homophobic slurs on social mediaA popular South Korean chatbot has been suspended after complaints that it used hate speech towards sexual minorities in conversations with i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[967,41,800,968,222,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-asia-pacific","category-computing","category-consciousness","category-south-korea","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26799,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26797\/revisions\/26799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}