The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof returns to Twitch with new guardrails in place

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/18/23604961/nothing-forever-twitch-ai-suspension-ban-lift-mismatch-media

by rntn • 3 years ago

52 21 3 years ago

Hell yes. These last two weeks have been like how I imagine drug withdrawals would feel. In fact, I'm mildly annoyed that this is an announcement of an announcement, since it's not actually back on Twitch until tomorrow.

I've really missed having this playing in the background. Not only was it unintentionally hilarious, but I actually started identifying with the microwave. It beeps loudly whenever it gets used.

I hope these new safety rails don't lobotomize it, like virtually every other AI project. But if it does, it's understandable, since the ultimate goal is to appease the Twitch cartel^Wmods.

jareklupinski2• 3 years ago

Best character, I got the Michael Wave plush from their merch shop

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i don't even own a real microwave....

ahoya• 3 years ago

Where can I find the shop?

logicalmonster3• 3 years ago

Nothing I've seen is changing my mind that the Turing test of the future will be to ask a suspected corporate bot to utter some kind of sufficiently unpleasant, politically incorrect statement.

gweinberg2• 3 years ago

Which is willing to make the statement, the human or the computer?

ch4s3• 3 years ago

I would imagine, that in most cases neither. All societies have unspeakable utterances, and any sufficiently advance AI is likely to reflect the cultural speech norms of it's creators/trainers.

recursive• 3 years ago

Humans, but only off the record. It's similar to a thing that already exists in the world. Things that use swear words in their self-description are backed by individuals, not bigcorps. Obviously, this can be subverted, but it seems to have a positive corrolation. See WTFPL.

ianbicking• 3 years ago

There's a station doing the same thing for Big Bang Theory: https://www.twitch.tv/infinitv_ai

I actually found it a bit better than the Seinfeld one, which felt a little too pointless and nonsensical to me.

Aardwolf• 3 years ago

Thanks for the link! I'm watching it now, but am wondering why there is always some rhythmic ticking sound in the background? A bit like a clock but not really.

adrenvi• 3 years ago

I believe it's supposed to be minimalist background music but it's a bit too minimalist

walt74• 3 years ago

The original account under this URL https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever is still banned for me (in germany).

Also: How can you, as a tech journalist, write about a twitch account and not link to it?

akvadrako• 3 years ago

What's the new account name?

macmcirish• 3 years ago

The article says the suspension is set to release Monday, they likely mean Monday in North American time zones.

wilg• 3 years ago

Obviously this is a goofy project so it's good to put some guardrails in place so people have a good time. But also interesting that people want computers to not only generate infinite random Seinfeld, but want to do it in a way that avoids the possibility of it sharting out something offensive, which is actually the harder problem.

corbulo• 3 years ago

It's really disappointing that otherwise really smart people have decided petty authoritarianism is the cure to the dangers of AI.

It's probably gonna turn out to be some degree of the nightmare they imagine in spite of them. As long as AI is a 1.5D being it won't have any means to investigate (with senses) the 'truth' of the ideas its handling. Warping its sense of reality without any logic to tie it to will result in something worse and far more arbitrary than laissez faire.

The AI-powered Seinfeld spoof returns to Twitch with new guardrails in place

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