Incident 120: Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts
Description: Philosopher AI, a GPT-3-powered controversial text generator, was allegedly used by an anonymous actor on AskReddit subreddit, whose posts featured a mixture of harmless stories, conspiracy theories, and sensitive topic discussions.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Murat Ayfer and OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by unknown, which harmed Reddit users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
120
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2020-09-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
thenextweb.com · 2020
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"A GPT-3-powered bot has been caught posing as a human on Reddit after more than a week of rampant posting on one of the site’s most popular subreddits.
Under the username of thegentlemetre, the bot had been churning out a post per minute o…
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