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* It is possible to do this to oneself in an argument, especially if you're using [[The War On Straw|straw men]] in the first place.
* There's an old story about a German mayor who didn't want people let their dogs run unleashed in the local forest, so he had put up a sign stating: "Anyone who'll let his dog run unleashed in the forest will be shot!" When someone remarked that this could be read as if the ''owners'' of the dogs were shot, the mayor had it "improved" to: "Anyone who'll let his dog run unleashed in the forest will be shot, the dog!" ("Dog" being a somewhat outdated insult.)
* [[Microsoft]]'s little scandal around [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|AI chatbot]] Tay/TayTweets. First, the users quickly taught the poor thing first to act naughty, then to spout [[Troll|just about every line that can get someone's panties in a bunch]] (as Oliver Campbell [http://twitter.com/oliverbcampbell/status/713005267722440704 pointed out], they either knew what's going to happen, but were playing coy, or failed to predict the obvious; "[http://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/gamergate-life-72-english/ dafuq they expected?]", indeed). Being good old Microsoft personnel, the developers and administrators [[Beyond the Impossible|found a way to]] make this worse: purged the most outrageous tweets, took Tay behind the barn and returned lobotomized (hello, [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.|George Orwell called]] — he said ''[[
{{quote| Imagine if you had just woke up after having been in a coma for 25 years, and this was the first headline you saw
{{indent}}'''Microsoft deletes 'teen girl' AI after it became a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours'''}}
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