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Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

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Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

#11

I tried with several inputs, but kept getting the following output for every response: No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-generating!

It's possible it's a load issue, as there are legit outputs before it hit the top of HN.

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post #9

I tried with several inputs, but kept getting the following output for every response: No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-generating!

Me too. I suspect this is a joke site.

Possibly hugged right now. There are two links in the about page that include screen shots of it working.

https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2022/04/19/fan-of-r...

https://www.garbageday.email/p/this-ai-will-tell-you-if-your...

Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

#13
post #9

I tried with several inputs, but kept getting the following output for every response: No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-generating!

Me too. I suspect this is a joke site.

It's not! I submitted an AITA scenario that I made up on the spot and got a set of surprisingly convincing responses. Hopefully they'll get this load issue sorted out and you will be able to give it a try for yourself.

Edit: Here are some examples from folks who have apparently managed to break through: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtheasshole/

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#14
Pretty impressive results if you ask me. The bots really seemed to grok the issues at hand and did a very good job of both processing the natural language and figuring out the answers.

I can see some pretty obvious applications for this tech as the more i think about it, the replies seems very human.

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#16

It's worth really reflecting on how much of what we believe could have originated from being convincingly astroturfed by a bot. Compared results of "I cheated on my (boyfriend|girlfriend)." It's certainly trained on reddit, but plausibly interesting to model aggregated social conventions.

2022 expectations: wearing tights on the Enterprise while I explore a new planet with Kirk and my trusty a phaser.

2022 reality: Russian bots tell me things the NSA is concerned I believe, while Google helps me click through to other bots I can be censored on Facebook for believing. Ah, the future.

Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

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post #2

Brilliant. Is the code public?

The dataset they used is public, the models and the training process they used are not. https://areyoutheasshole.com/about https://areyoutheasshole.com/training-data

> pushshift.io, a website and database which logs of all of the posts that go on Reddit when they get posted

Such a great resource. It's surprisingly easy to build your own massive datasets using it. I re-derived WebText2, used for training GPT-3, just on a home machine. And with some image scraping you can build up image datasets for training interesting GAN models.

> the training process they used are not.

Seems like it'd be fairly straightforward to finetune an existing language model . GPT-3 if you've got spare change, GPT-J-6B can be finetuned in Colab for free, and GPT-NeoX-20B could be finetuned for free/cheap. Use simple concats of AITA posts followed by a top comment. Balance for NTA/YTA like the Training Data page mentions, and I'll bet you'll get comparable results.

That said, the _idea_ of this bot is really cool and fun.

Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

#19

I tried with several inputs, but kept getting the following output for every response: No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-generating!

Thanks for the HN hug of death everyone :) As some speculated, we just blew past our rate limit. We're trying to get that raised, but in the meantime the website should better communicate that to you.
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