Live streaming platform Twitch has suspended an AI-generated Seinfeld parody after one of the characters made transphobic remarks.

 

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.