YouTuber Built, Made Publicly Available, and Released Model Trained on Toxic 4chan Posts as Prank
June 3, 2022
A YouTuber built GPT-4chan, a model based on OpenAI’s GPT-J and trained on posts containing racism, misogyny, and antisemitism collected from 4chan’s “politically incorrect” board, which he made publicly available, and deployed as multiple bots posting thousands of messages on the same 4chan board as a prank.
- Alleged deployer
- yannic-kilcher
- Alleged developer
- yannic-kilcher
- Alleged harmed parties
- internet-social-platform-users
Source
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