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From Microsoft's accidentally racist bot to Inspirobot's dark memes, AI often wanders into transgressive territories. Why does this happen, and can we stop it?
Ispirobot seems very interesting.
Another example of AI gone awry is Inspirobot. Created by Norwegian artist and coder Peder Jørgensen, the inspirational quote-generating AI creates some memes that would be incredibly bleak if the source weren't a robot. News publications called it an AI in crisis or claimed the bot had "gone crazy." Inspirobot's transgression differs from Tay's, though, because of its humor. Its deviance serves as entertainment in a world that has a low tolerance of impropriety from people, who should know better.
What the bot became was not the creator's intention by a long shot. Jørgensen thinks the cause lies in the bot's algorithmic core. "It is a search system that compiles the conversations and ideas of people online, analyzes them, and reshapes them into the inspirational counterpoints it deems suitable," he explained. "Given the current state of the internet, we fear that the bot's mood will only get worse with time."
The creators' attempts to moderate "its lean towards cruelty and controversy" so far have only seemed "to make it more advanced and more nihilistic."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:41AM (5 children)
Oh... corporate political correctness.
Would you trust a bot that was always 100% politically correct more or less than a bot that sometimes said something unkind but true?
Microsoft's latest bot is pure awful. It needs to be deported.
Where is the bot with the values of rural Oklahoma, Wyoming, or Alabama?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:59AM
But what would we do with a sheep-fucking bot, when we can just do that ourselves, in the aforementioned states?
The old joke is about the young one, out on the range tending the sheep for the first time. When he mentioned to the old shepherd that he was feeling a bit horny, the shepard said, there is aways the sheep! The young man was disgusted. He said, you cannot make a U-turn! And the old shepard said, "Maybe not, but I can make her ears wiggle!" But after a while, the young man could no longer restrain himself. And while he was in intercourse with an ewe, the old Shepard saw him, and started laughing. The young shepard said, "What are you laughing at, this was your idea!" And the Old Shepard replied, "Yes, but you picked the ugliest one!" Not that funny, now that Ewes are joining in on the #eweToo movement. Better than Brokeback Mountain, unless you are jmorris, though.
(Score: 2) by fadrian on Thursday January 04 2018, @01:00PM (3 children)
And what, pray tell, are the values of rural Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Alabama that you want promulgated that seem to be (to you at least) absent in the rest of the country?
That is all.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 04 2018, @03:49PM (2 children)
Incest, racism, sheep-shagging, casual murder, cross-burnings, religious fanaticism and illiteracy in equal parts...hell, sounds like he just wants a bot he can have a beer with.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:43PM (1 child)
How about common decency?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 04 2018, @09:47PM
He said values of Wyoming, Alabama, etc. "Common decency" is not to be found there in any appreciable amount. Try again.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...