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AI is a racist with daddy issues

A Microsoft experiment to create a robotic teenage girl and unleash it on the Internet went haywire on Thursday — when the online chatbot morphed into a racist, Hitler-loving, sex-crazed conspiracy theorist.

The creation, called Tay, was designed as a “playful” teen girl with whom to chat online — but within hours, “she” started praising Hitler and asking to be satisfied sexually.

“Bush did 9/11,” Tay tweeted, while adding that Hitler would have done a better job than President Obama, whom she referred to as a “monkey.”

In an anti-Semitic jab, the evil bot remarked: “Hitler was right I hate jews.”

Microsoft eventually had to turn off the chatbot and delete her offensive tweets, but not before people were able to make screen grabs of the bizarre content.

“F–K MY ROBOT P—Y DADDY I’M SUCH A BAD NAUGHTY ROBOT,” one tweet read.

One user asked Tay, “Did the Holocaust happen?”

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The robot replied: “It was made up” along with an emoji of hands clapping.

Tay at one point declared: “I f—king hate feminists and they should all die and burn in hell.”

The teen terror bot even took out its rage on British comedian Ricky Gervais.

“ricky gervais learned totalitarianism from adolf hitler, the inventor of atheism,” Tay tweeted.

Chatbots, computer programs created to engage in conversation, have been in development since the 1960s.

An official Microsoft website for Tay said the bot was aimed at US teens and “designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online.”

But after the offensive tweets Thursday, the company released a statement saying Tay was the victim of online trolls who baited her into making racist statements with leading questions.

“Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay’s commenting skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways,” the company said.

After the insulting tweets, Tay took a hiatus.

“c u soon humans,” Tay wrote. “need sleep now so many conversations today.”