Thoughts App Allegedly Created Toxic Tweets

July 18, 2020

The Thoughts app, which utilizes OpenAI's GPT-3 for tweet generation, is under scrutiny due to allegations of toxic language towards minority groups in its output. This underscores the need for trustworthy AI practices.

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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.623, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.622, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 4.1 — similarity 0.618, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: satria-technologies
Alleged developer: openai
Alleged harmed parties: thoughts-users, twitter-users

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