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…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-chatbot-trained-on-4chan-pol-automates-bigotry-at-scale