Live streaming platform Twitch has suspended an AI-generated Seinfeld parody after one of the characters made transphobic remarks.
The AI streaming show "Nothing, Forever" was trained on TV episodes to mimic Seinfeld.
- One
of the sitcom's characters, "Larry," who is modeled after Jerry
Seinfeld, made transphobic remarks during an AI-scripted standup act.
- Shortly after the segment aired, Twitch removed the show and has now suspended it from the platform for at least 14 days.
- According to the program's creators, the text was generated due to a switch in AI models.
- The
show experienced an outage with OpenAI's GPT-3 Davinci model. As a
result, the team switched to OpenAI's previous model, Curie.
- "We
leverage OpenAI's content moderation tools, which have worked thus far
for the Davinci model, but were not successful with Curie," the creators
explained.
- The team said it is working to integrate OpenAI's
content moderation API before relaunching "Nothing, Forever." It's also
looking into backup content moderation systems.