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https://scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1523295/wechat-removes-microsofts-chatbots-after-privacy-and-foul
China Insider

WeChat, Microsoft trade fire over 'killing' of chatbot amid privacy, foul language concerns

China’s popular mobile messaging application WeChat has extensively removed many artificially intelligent “chatbots” throughout its platform, just three days after Microsoft registered them as users as part of its testing phase for the project.

The chatbots, named Xiaobing a common nickname for young girls in Chinese, is the latest Microsoft product to tap into China’s growing smartphone and social media user base.