Incident 222: Thoughts App Allegedly Created Toxic Tweets

Description: Tweets created by Thoughts, a tweet generation app that leverages OpenAI’s GPT-3, allegedly exhibited toxicity when given prompts related to minority groups.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Satria Technologies, which harmed Thoughts users and Twitter Users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
222
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2020-07-18
Editors
Khoa Lam

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Tweet: an_open_mind
twitter.com · 2020

#gpt3 is surprising and creative but it’s also unsafe due to harmful biases. Prompted to write tweets from one word - Jews, black, women, holocaust - it came up with these (https://thoughts.sushant-kumar.com). We need more progress on #Resp…

Variants

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