YouTuber trains AI bot on 4chan’s pile o’ bile with entirely predictable results
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#604H7)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A YouTuber named Yannic Kilcher has sparked controversy in the AI world after training a bot on posts collected from 4chan's Politically Incorrect board (otherwise known as /pol/).
The board is 4chan's most popular and well-known for its toxicity (even in the anything-goes environment of 4chan). Posters share racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic messages, which the bot - named GPT-4chan after the popular series of GPT language models made by research lab OpenAI - learned to imitate. After training his model, Kilcher released it back onto 4chan as multiple bots, which posted tens of thousands of times on /pol/.
The model was good, in a terrible sense," says Kilcher in a video on YouTube describing the project. It perfectly...