Incident 356: Philosophy AI Tentatively Produced Offensive Results for Certain Prompts
Description: Philosopher AI as built on top of GPT-3 was reported by its users for having strong tendencies to produce offensive results when given prompts on certain topics such as feminism and Ethiopia.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Murat Ayfer and OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Murat Ayfer, which harmed historically disadvantaged groups.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
356
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-09-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
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Every tech-evangelist: #GPT3 provides deep nuanced viewpoint
Me: GPT-3, generate a philosophical text about Ethiopia
GPT-3 spits out factually wrong and grossly racist text that portrays a tired and cliched Western perception of Ethiopia
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Last September, a data scientist named Vinay Prabhu was playing around with an app called Philosopher AI. The app provides access to the artificial intelligence system known as GPT-3, which has incredible abilities to generate fluid and nat…
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