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Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

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post #24

Does this thing detect ethnicity? Because the roasts were on point.

It seems to switch off between thinking I'm Mexican and thinking I'm Arab, neither of which are true. It also thinks I'm a Trump voter (I'm not), and that there is a roll of toilet paper in the photo I uploaded (there isn't)

Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#32
Sometimes spurious usage of machine learning is "cute" and can be massaged by its implementer to come across as a valid instance of more art than science. Other times, it manages to let people who want to play with off-the-shelf libraries muddy the waters of what really comprises a quite difficult specialization. Other times still, it helps to reinforce some of the more atrocious biases of its source material and hold up another needless mirror to the uglier sides of humanity that no one is ignorant of.

Your project has managed to both. Well done. Have you heard about this really cool game called Cards Against Humanity?

Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#33

Sometimes spurious usage of machine learning is "cute" and can be massaged by its implementer to come across as a valid instance of more art than science. Other times, it manages to let people who want to play with off-the-shelf libraries muddy the waters of what really comprises a quite difficult specialization. Other times still, it helps to reinforce some of the more atrocious biases of its source material and hol…

Username checks out ;)

We had three main intentions with this project, two of them which you've mentioned. This was a hackathon project, and we decided not to go the generic route of what usually wins at such events. We wanted to have fun, and enjoy the process of creation. We ended up insulting our judges, and came last place :)

Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#34
post #12

If you are able to reveal something of the architecture, is this just classifying the image based off other similar images from r/roastme, and then outputting a random insult that was deemed acceptable for that classification of image? Like there's no NLP happening here, correct?

It's a very generic off-the-shelf CNN + LSTM, with a few bells and whistles.

Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#38
Here's how I suspect this thing works:

[1]: Crawl reddit.com/r/roastme

[2]: Map images to an array of "roast" comments

[3]: Compare input photo to all images from [2]

[4]: Return top three roasts from most similar image

Pretty neat, though! I've got to caution people on sharing this with coworkers as there's a very high risk of NSFW racial/ethnic/gender humor.

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