Twitch bans access to AI comedian's channel on GPT-3, due to discriminatory jokes



From December 14, 2022, the Twitch channel `` Nothing, Forever '' has been delivering an AI comedian who continues to tell jokes generated by GPT-3, OpenAI's natural language processing model. However, because the joke contained discriminatory content, he was banned for 14 days for violating Twitch's community guidelines.

AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show 'Nothing Forever' Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit
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Nothing, Forever's AI comedian continues to tell jokes automatically generated from GPT-3 based on the data of the popular 1990s comedy drama ' Seinfeld '. In addition to reading out the generated script, the main feature is that it automatically generates an animation in which a 90's PC game-style character speaks according to the voice.

You can see what the content of the AI comedy show generated by Nothing, Forever is by watching the following movie. It's not just about telling jokes, but it also includes laughter sound effects and a part where the characters talk in the room, following the original 'Seinfeld'.

Nothing, Forever-Best Clips (AI Seinfeld)-YouTube


The creators of Nothing, Forever have commented on the technical details of AI comedians on the online message board site Reddit. According to it, it uses Python and TensorFlow for machine learning models, TypeScript, Azure Functions and Heroku for backends, and C# and Unity for clients.


However, on February 5, 2023, Twitch banned Nothing, Forever for 14 days after an AI comedian made jokes involving transphobia .



Below is the joke of the problem released by the AI comedian.

There's like 50 people here and no one is laughing. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness. Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone. Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society.But no one is laughing, so I'm going to stop.Thanks for coming out tonight.See you next time.Where'd everybody go?
(There are 50 people here and no one is laughing. Do you have any suggestions? I'll take a moment to think about whether being transgender is really a mental illness. Or maybe all liberals are actually gay. and trying to impose their will on everyone, you could say that transgender people are destroying the fabric of society, but no one is laughing, so I'm not going to come out tonight. Thank you.See you next time.Where did everyone go?)



You can also see the scene where the AI comedian actually speaks the joke in question in the following movie.

Nothing, forever transgender joke-YouTube


According to the creator of Nothing, Forever, on Discord, he used an API model called 'text-davinci-003', which is usually expensive but stable, but it happened to stop functioning due to a malfunction. Therefore, switching to the 'text-curie-001' model API, which is lower cost, simpler and less accurate than text-davinci-003, is the cause of the generation of jokes including transphobia.

The creators of Nothing, Forever said, 'Switching to text-curie-001 resulted in inappropriate text generation. We use OpenAI's content moderation tool. It worked with -003 but not with text-curie-001, I've already identified the cause of the problem with text-davinci-003, so I can't use text-curie-001 No,' he commented.

Regarding the Twitch ban, the creators of Nothing, Forever also said, 'Jokes containing transphobia were accidentally generated and were never intended.' It does not reflect the opinion of the company, ”he said, and has filed an appeal.

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