'Worst AI ever' loves to make 'unspeakably horrible' racist posts and troll online
dailystar.co.ukartificial intelligence researcher says he has created "the worst AI ever" capable of making tens of thousands of hateful posts online.YouTuber Yannic Kilcher says he trained an AI using the Politically Incorrect message board on the website 4chan, a controversial forum infamous for its 'hateful' anonymous posts.Using 3.3 million threads from three years on the site, the bot—called GPT-4chan—learned how to talk on the website.
Its creator then 'unleashed' 9 versions of the AI back onto 4chan, where it went on to make thousands and thousands of offensive, cruel and even 'violent' posts in less than one day.Using a language model, the AI was able to learn how to write posts that are 'indistinguishable' from those written by humans.Apparently, 4chan users started noticing the bot's posts and speculating who was behind the posts.
Kilcher says that initially nobody thought it was a chatbot because of how realistic it was."The model is quite vile, I have to warn you," Kilcher said. "It's essentially the same as if you went to the website and interacted with users there."However, he said it "was good in a terrible sense.
It perfectly encapsulated the mix of offensiveness, nihilism, trolling, and deep distrust of any information whatsoever that permeates most posts [on the site].
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