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by devy 3741 days ago
Unsurprisingly, there had been initial setbacks when XiaoIce was first released in May 2014 on WeChat platform, where users were abusing/attacking "her", causing XiaoIce being pulled by Tencent after being online only for a few days. [1]

Since WeChat is a closed social network, it wasn't too clear what type of "attack/abuse" were conducted. However, almost 2 years later, Microsoft still didn't quite get it about proper censorship in Tay's big turning test[2] in a public social network.

[1] http://tech.ifeng.com/mi/detail_2014_06/01/36613379_0.shtml (in Chinese, use Google Translate)

[2] http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/microsoft-xiaoice-turing-test...