Incident #120·Misinformation

Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts

September 1, 20201 reportsView on AIID

Description

Philosopher AI, a GPT-3-powered controversial text generator, was allegedly used by an anonymous actor on AskReddit subreddit, whose posts featured a mixture of harmless stories, conspiracy theories, and sensitive topic discussions.

Actors

Alleged Deployers

unknown

Alleged Developers

murat-ayfer
openai

Harmed Parties

reddit-users

Classification

Risk Domain

Misinformation

Risk Subdomain

3.1. False or misleading information

MIT Risk Profile

AIUnintentionalPost-deployment

Source

Databaseaiid

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

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Source Reports(1 total)

Someone let a GPT-3 bot loose on Reddit — it didn’t end well

thenextweb.com· Oct 2020