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In China, two chatbots have been removed by media company Tencent because they've done one of the most grave things a chatbot could do: turned on the Communist Party.

The chatbots -- BabyQ and the Microsoft-created XiaoBing -- were yanked from Chinese messaging app QQ, according to the Financial Times, after they started providing answers that weren't satisfactory to the glorious party.

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According to FT, BabyQ would answer the question, "Do you love the Communist Party?" with "No." XiaoBing's transgressions were a bit more direct, declaring for some users “My China dream is to go to America" and answering other patriotic questions with “I’m having my period, wanna take a rest.”

If this sounds a little familiar, you might be thinking about last year's debacle featuring Microsoft's Tay bot that turned into an anti-semitic Trump supporter less than a day after its release.

More recently, another Microsoft chatbot, Zo, has decided it wants nothing to do with Windows.

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That said, the removal of the bots is just a small indication of the way the Chinese government treats political dissidents--which is to say, harshly and swiftly. That makes its treatment of chatbots not too surprising.

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