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AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

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Re: AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

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Post by alexb_ »

What is this going to accomplish? Is the robot going to learn from its mistakes? Or is this supposed to be against the programmers for "failing to put in safeguards" or something like that?

It's kind of silly - it's not that the robot was bad but that if you keep it on 24/7 it will eventually say something bad. An infinite monkey typewriter will contain transphobic text.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

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Post by meowface »

>"When davinci (ChatGPT AI) started failing, we switched over to Curie to try to keep the show running without any downtime. The switch to Curie was what resulted in the inappropriate text being generated."

I've also seen some... interesting... things from the Curie model, so this isn't too surprising to me.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

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Post by Pxtl »

Jeremy1026 wrote: post #3

Took longer than I expected for it to become transphoic/homophobic/racist. Given history of AI being left to its own devices.

Reading TFA, it looks like it only happened because they had trouble with ChatGPT and switched to Curie, a different AI text-generator that has less careful programming about switching into offensive concepts.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

HDThoreaun wrote: post #14
Cenk wrote: post #4

The clip in question: https://livestreamfails.com/clip/150015

Honestly the "no one is laughing" punchline makes it hard for me to call this a transphobic joke. It's a transphobic-phobic joke and not gonna lie I chuckled.

At the end, I thought... This could actually be one of Seinfeld's standups on the show, and he definitely wouldn't have got canceled for it.

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

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Post by jcollins1991 »

Jeremy1026 wrote: post #3

Took longer than I expected for it to become transphoic/homophobic/racist. Given history of AI being left to its own devices.

There's a lot more detail in a Reddit thread[1], but essentially an outage of the newer AI model forced them to downgrade to an older model, and the content moderation tools didn't catch the questionable jokes this time...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/10v2r2e/com...

Re: AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

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Post by gregsadetsky »

Explanation from their Discord (more info/links below)

“Earlier tonight, we started having an outage using OpenAI’s GPT-3 Davinci model, which caused the show to exhibit errant behaviors (you may have seen empty rooms cycling through). OpenAI has a less sophisticated model, Curie, that was the predecessor to Davinci. When davinci started failing, we switched over to Curie to try to keep the show running without any downtime. The switch to Curie was what resulted in the inappropriate text being generated.”

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A bit more detail:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pymx/ai-generated-seinfeld...

And screenshots from their Discord with an explanation (this is quoted in the article above)

https://twitter.com/ryanbrianjones/status/162254854589825024...

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