Maybe it will become the new Turing Test. The mark of a true general purpose AI is that it doesn't turn into an offensive jerk after contact with humans.
I don't mean this in a cynical way. If you consider the time a learning AI spends with humans equivalent to the time a child spends with his family, peers, and teachers while growing up it makes sense. Most children wouldn't fare well if raised by poisonous "nurturers"
That's just the thing, children aren't usually just dumped out into the public to fend for themselves until their parents have slowly conditioned them and exposed them a little at a time. Tay needed some of its contacts to have a higher learning priority assigned than just strangers. And these contacts should have guided Tay through the crap by messaging Tay when she was crossing boundaries or dealing with nasty people. It would likely require a real team of people to support given the volume Tay had to deal with and some automated tools.
Everything that didn't fall in that bucket was clearly just regurgitated quotes from things it had been sent, which clearly needed moderation. But, that's no different than moderating a message board or comment section.
AI would need to be designed to have the same "safeguard" (not sure what else to call it). If you didn't, an AI with a certain amount of physical power would be an easily-brainwashed child, but able to kill or destroy much better than a child could.
Saying all of that, I want to say I remember a movie or show that addressed that issue, but I can't remember what it was...
Interesting perspective.
If most humans are offensive jerks then we can't be too surprised when an AI, who we've built specifically to mimic human beings, becomes a jerk too.
I see this debacle as just a natural consequence of a naive and poorly-considered goal. If you build an artificial jackal, don't be surprised when it rips your face off.