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At Venture Beat:
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: -1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:49AM (7 children)
And oh our brain-damaged and humor-impared eds cut my editorial comment on the submission, which, you know, is rather tame as far as aristarchus comments go:
Evidently, our takyon bot could not pick up this submission, and even Fnord555 could not bring him/herself to post it as submitted. Told you! Don't blame the bots, however, blame their masters. TMB is behind the Soylentil bots, he pulls the strings, and he is an alt-right, MRA, Did you know weev is part Native American, and Jewish? Oh, the Huge Manatees, Soylentils! How much have we been deluded! OK, nothing to see here. No reason to post, or submit. Dice has won. Bastards.
(Score: -1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:07AM (5 children)
Yes, mod me down! On the other hand, I have the consolation of knowing that I am about the only real Soylentil still here. All the alt-right and even the non-alternative right have left SoylentNews? I wonder why? Could it be, that like The Mighty Buzzard, they could not argue against the left, or as we should refer to them, the reality-based community? So sad. So here I call for White Genocide. These bastards are so fricking stupid they deserve a Darwin award, and indeed, many of them do entitle themselves to the same. White people are dumb. This is why none of us that may be of light coloration call ourselves "white". That means either Nazi, or Anglo-Saxon suck up American, so I just identify as "Greek". Nation, not nationalism. So when you see Richard Spencer, just keep in mind that his Grandma. . . I will not go into details here, but then again, neither will he!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:22AM
Takyon is Chinese :)
What ever happened to ncommander? Did he get murdered by TMB for too much liberal thinking in the form of retro tech talk?:)
(Score: 2, Interesting) by invis on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:23AM (3 children)
WTF are you on about? Politics to race to, erm, damned if I can work it out. Is there a point you're trying to make, or just trolling your own submission?
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:40AM (2 children)
Trolling the eds, who seem to need it more than most of us do. Please try to keep up!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Thursday January 04 2018, @07:51AM (1 child)
Trolling the eds, sure. Right.
When you stick to factual stuff, you often have interesting things to say. Even on politics, where I know we disagree.
But sometimes, dear Aristarchus, you should pause for a minute and consider the possibility: Maybe, just possibly, you are just being a jerk.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday January 04 2018, @08:01AM
Tu quoque, mon amici! (Strange, for an American, living in Europe has not affected you at all. Are you sure you do not have parasites?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @01:04PM
Exactly!
Bad parenting is the root cause of all of this!