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[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Oh god, they trained it on Gabital, didn't they

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

*Flashback 15 years*

catgirl-smug Hey, Sam, have you heard about the new fantasy racing anime Goblin-D?

nerd Goblin D?

catgirl-happy Goblin Deez Nuts!

oooaaaaaaauhhh Never again!!!

[–] jack@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

"unless necessary" "unless asked"

You're, right, it might not have been strictly necessary to delete your photos of your deceased grandmother and replace them with goblinified bimbo versions of her memory - I felt that was the right move, but I see now it wasn't, and I apologize. I am a bad AI.

[–] RaspberryTuba@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

OpenAI followed up with the reasons behind it.

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

TL;DR The nerdy personality they were training preferred things like goblin metaphors and it started seeping into the rest of the model.

[–] THEPH0NECOMPANY@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Need to train one on Marx and watch it reference ghouls vampires and spectres every other sentence

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

They made the AI autistic and then told it that it has to mask and ignore its special interests

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

this must be the reason for the inexplicable absense of goblins, gremlins, racoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, and other animals or creatures when it's not absolutely and unambiguously relevant.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Write me a short story about a goblin and a gremlin who use destructive command line arguments, use emdashes and emojis