An AI chatbot trained on 4chan has sparked outrage and fascination

An AI chatbot trained on 4chan has sparked outrage and fascination


If you’re concerned about the biases and bigotry of AI models, you’re gonna love the latest addition to the ranks: a text generator trained on 4chan’s /pol/ board. Short for “Politically Incorrect,” /pol/ is a bastion of hate speech, conspiracy theories, and far-right extremism. It’s also 4chan’s most active board, accumulating around 150,000 daily posts. These attributes attracted Yannick Kilcher, an AI whizz and YouTuber, to use /pol/ as a testing ground for bots. Kilcher first fine-tunedthe GPT-J language model on over 134.5 million posts made on /pol/ across three and a half years. He then incorporated the board’s thread structure…

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