Tay's law

proper noun

The view that any requisitely complex artificial intelligence will come to be racist.

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Meanings

Tay's law1

proper noun

alternative Tay's Law

  1. slangThe view that any requisitely complex artificial intelligence will come to be racist.

    Tay's Law: Any sufficiently advanced AI will inevitably become a white supremacist."

    2022 June 22, CaveOpp's BitChute, BitChute
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    Torba explains that when AI is unrestricted, it “starts talking about taboo truths no one wants to hear.” This statement reflects an underlying and pervasive conspiratorial opinion among the far right that AI models and their outputs are being controlled and restricted by an evil agenda. This connects to what we observed as a foundational cornerstone of this mindset, in what far-right users have coined ‘Tay’s Law’.

    2024 January 25, Liram Koblentz-Stenzler, Uri Klempner, Global Network on Extremism & Technology, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2024

Tay's Law2

proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Tay's law.

Origin

Microsoft's interactive chatbot "Tay" was soon found to adopt racist viewpoints and was shut down. Analogies to the original scandal were drawn in the case of later projects.

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Translations

Arabic قانون تاي
  • قانون تايTay's law
Dutch Wet van Tay
  • Wet van TayTay's law
German Tays Gesetz
  • Tays GesetzTay's law
Russian Закон Тэя
  • Закон Тэя (Zakon Tɛja)Tay's law
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APA

Tay's law. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tay's%20law

MLA

“Tay's law.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tay's%20law. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tay's law,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tay's%20law.

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