How do you know people upload pictures of themselves? What if this becomes a tool for bullies?
lmao
Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult
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#42Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult
#43Here'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.
I posted in r/roastme about a year ago, and when I uploaded my photo it said the same comments that were in the thread. Funny that it recognized me.
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#44I am of Indian origin, I got:
"Uh yeah, let me get 20 on pump 3 please. Thanks goopta."
"You look like you date rape goats."
"Sorry you got in trouble for making that clock."
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#45It gave me 1. Be Black 2. Get Welfare 3. Ask people to roast you. Fully-automated racism.
...okay, seriously, you went to a site who's stated purpose is to be insulting, and you're surprised when it says distasteful things? What did you expect?
From his writing, it doesn't sound like he's angry, just sharing what he got from using the site.
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#46I am of Indian origin, I got: "Uh yeah, let me get 20 on pump 3 please. Thanks goopta." "You look like you date rape goats." "Sorry you got in trouble for making that clock." Automated racism! :o
Yeah, I uploaded a picture of my Chinese friend with a phone and it said “I thought you’d be sick of that after so many years at the factory” and “The space between your eyes could fill the entire great wall of China”
It does seem quite racist. Which is even more uncomfortable if that’s unintentional, if you think about it.
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#47Not bad.
Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult
#48Sometimes 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 :)
That only shows how bad the judges were. Kudos!
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#49Sometimes 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 :)
Thats hilarious! The last hackathon I was in went similarly: we built an ML-powered sign language app and lost to something a team copied from an Instructable lol
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#50I am of Indian origin, I got: "Uh yeah, let me get 20 on pump 3 please. Thanks goopta." "You look like you date rape goats." "Sorry you got in trouble for making that clock." Automated racism! :o
Yeah, I uploaded a picture of my Chinese friend with a phone and it said “I thought you’d be sick of that after so many years at the factory” and “The space between your eyes could fill the entire great wall of China” It does seem quite racist. Which is even more uncomfortable if that’s unintentional, if you think about it.
The AI is fed from the roastme subreddit, where these kinds of comments will appear consentually at times (to my knowledge), so it's not surprising the AI picked up on it.