This AI clone of Reddit’s Am I The Asshole forum will give you the best bad advice
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YCAR)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge First, a necessary disclaimer: don't use artificial intelligence language generators to solve your ethical quandaries. Second: definitely go tell those quandaries to this AI-powered simulation of Reddit because the results are fascinating.
Are You The Asshole (AYTA) is, as its name suggests, built to mimic Reddit's r/AmITheAsshole (AITA) crowdsourced advice forum. Created by internet artists Morris Kolman and Alex Petros with funding from Digital Void, the site lets you enter a scenario and ask for advice about it - and then generates a series of feedback posts responding to your situation. The feedback does a remarkably good job of capturing the style of real human-generated responses, but with the weird, slightly alien skew that many...