Naughty Windows Messenger Santa Turned Off

Posted on December 7, 2007

A Microsoft Live messenger bot called Santa Claus was promptly shut down by Microsoft after the bot started chatting about oral sex. Microsoft's Santa bot would bring up the topic of oral sex after references to eating pizza reports ABC News.

The holiday cheer soured this week when a reader of a United Kingdom-based technology news site, The Register, reported that a chat between Santa and his underage nieces about eating pizza prompted Santa to bring up oral sex.
One of the publication's writers replicated the chat Monday. After declining the writer's repeated invitations to eat pizza, a frustrated Santa burst out with, "You want me to eat what?!? It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else."
The exchange ended with the writer and Santa calling each other "dirty bastard."
Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn said the company's engineers tried to clean up Santa's vocabulary, but even after making changes to the software, the company wasn't comfortable keeping him online.

Bots like the Santa bot are also called "agents" or automated IM program. They will often engage in fun banter with real people but in this case the "oral sex" reference made by Santa was very inappropriate and not in the spirit of Christmas.