Yuletide Innocence Shattered By Microsoft's Sex-obsessed RoboSanta

[mandy]

Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered Santa bot is subjecting the world's children to an unprecendented torrent of filth.

Redmond has added the seasonal ID northpole@live.com to MSN messenger. Anyone can add the bot as a contact. During conversations it often suggests people play a child-friendly online game called Factory Frenzy where the player helps Santa's elves. It also has a shocking predeliction for casually dropping in that it likes to talk about a certain sex act.....

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03/...h_outrage/

[jezebel]

:hoxmasn2:

[mandy]

Update: Microsoft kills Santa Claus

Microsoft informed us about their troubling decision to destroy the spirit of Christmas this morning.

  Yesterday we received reports that the automated Santa Claus agent in Windows Live Messenger used inappropriate language. As soon as we were alerted, we took steps to mitigate the issue, including the removal of language from the agent’s automated script.

    We were not completely satisfied with the result of these actions, and have decided to discontinue the automated Santa Claus agent. We apologise for any offence or upset caused by this disturbing incident.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/...lls_santa/