Incident 259: YouTuber Built, Made Publicly Available, and Released Model Trained on Toxic 4chan Posts as Prank

Description: 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.

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Alleged: Yannic Kilcher developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed internet social platform users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
259
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-06-03
Editors
Khoa Lam

GMF Taxonomy Classifications

Taxonomy Details

Known AI Goal

Social Media Content Generation

Known AI Technology

Transformer, Distributional Learning

Known AI Technical Failure

Unsafe Exposure or Access

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.