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parents do not let your teenage AI chatbot join Twitter it only ends in disaster I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update so in the last seen at updates show I reported on a new artificially intelligent creation from Microsoft a chat bot named Tay she was designed to speak like a teenager and learn from how other young adults talk by interacting online but in a matter of hours Tay went from a sweet and sassy online teen full of memes and emoji dreams and was corrupted into a Hitler supporting sexbot twitter users trolled her by sending her racist and misogynistic comments with foul language and they also fed her plenty of political propaganda about presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump so in her learning process she quickly started spewing it all back out Microsoft turned off the chat BOTS and deleted offensive posts and they're now making adjustments if only it were that easy to adjust the rest of humanity online if it took less than a day for a computer AI to learn this is how we talk we should not be leading computers learn from the internet or what if some day an alien race observes us by looking at our online conversations yeah Twitter's going to be the reason our planet's blown up so on a lighter note let's talk about video games Sony announced it will be making PlayStation games for iOS and Android app stores and it will use the characters from existing PlayStation games but it's only for mobile devices in Japan and Asia for now it's similar to Nintendo strategy Nintendo is also making games for smartphones but so far it only released a social game called miitomo in Japan and that will expand to more countries soon also on the topic of mobile Apple pay could be expanding to websites later this year in time for holiday shopping according to a report from recode citing anonymous sources Apple is working on plans to let people shop on mobile websites by using their fingerprint to validate a purchase on the phone right now Apple pay is used inside of apps but not on the web with Safari that does it for this tech news roundup but there's always more to update your life on CNET comm from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey