AI-generated Seinfeld parody suspended by Twitch for transphobic content

[dirtyharry555]

AI-generated Seinfeld parody suspended by Twitch for transphobic content

A two-week Twitch ban for "Nothing, Forever."

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A two-week Twitch ban for "Nothing, Forever."

What's the deal with the AI-generated Seinfeld parody "Nothing, Forever?"

On Sunday night, "Nothing, Forever" found itself in hot water after its AI-generated dialogue included a rant(Opens in a new tab) about trans people while streaming on Twitch. The show mimics the hit 90s sitcom, Seinfeld, and follows Larry Feinberg, a robotic 3-D animated stand-in for Jerry Seinfeld, and his three pals have all sorts of zany discussions about, well, nothing. Much of "Nothing, Forever" occurs in Larry's living room but, like Seinfeld, the show includes a stand-up set opener from our main character.

“There’s like 50 people here and no one is laughing," Larry said during the stream. "Anyone have any suggestions?”

Larry then dropped some transphobic lines that likely run afoul of Twitch's guidelines, resulting in a temporary two-week suspension.

Since Dec. 14 of last year, a computer-generated, 3-D animated parody of Seinfeld has been airing around the clock on Twitch. The dialogue is completely generated by OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model. (If OpenAI sounds familiar, that's because they are behind the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot as well.) The media group behind the project, Mismatch Media, included a few moderation filters when setting "Nothing, Forever" up, but beyond that, they've been hands-off and letting the AI take the show wherever it may go.

But, something clearly went wrong on Sunday.

The creators of "Nothing, Forever" explained in the show's Discord chat that they were changing AI models when the moderation failure occurred, leading to Larry's rant about trans people. Another person on the team also stressed that the resulting content in no way reflected what the show's creators believe.

Twitch has suspended the channel for two weeks. After that time, it appears "Nothing, Forever" will be back and Larry will have better stand-up material.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Approximately six hours of Nothing, Forever :

Approximately Six Hours of "Nothing, Forever" (February 3rd, 2023) : Mismatch Media : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

recorded this a few days ago because I wanted to preserve a small bit of this fascinating experiment in I don't know what this is in case it went down - welp,...

archive.org

 

[mandrill]

AI-generated Seinfeld parody suspended by Twitch for transphobic content

A two-week Twitch ban for "Nothing, Forever."

mashable.com

So let's see: A blatant copyright rip-off. Low quality production values that scream "Made in mom's basement". And a disrespectful attack on groups in society....

I can't understand why this got banned.

 

[Frankfooter]

So let's see: A blatant copyright rip-off. Low quality production values that scream "Made in mom's basement". And a disrespectful attack on groups in society....

I can't understand why this got banned.

It ran for a month constantly creating bad quality fake episodes as an AI project/test.
AI's that reflect human interactions have had issues with themselves posting racist crap has been a problem for years.
The problem is that AI's are just trained through interactions with people and their posts.

 

[onomatopoeia]

So let's see: A blatant copyright rip-off. Low quality production values that scream "Made in mom's basement". And a disrespectful attack on groups in society....

I can't understand why this got banned.

Not copyright infringement, and the computer in the corner by the window was finally used.

You've assumed facts not in evidence. The dialogue quoted as 'transphobic' in the OP's link wasn't printed. Your use of the word 'attack' is biased speculation.

 

[mandrill]

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Not copyright infringement, and the computer in the corner by the window was finally used.

You've assumed facts not in evidence. The dialogue quoted as 'transphobic' in the OP's link wasn't printed. Your use of the word 'attack' is biased speculation.

The OP said that it was a Seinfeld parody and was banned for transphobic content.

I'm not going to put in an hour of personal research on this piece of insignificant, ultra low budget shit. I'm going to take the OP at his word.

 

[onomatopoeia]

The OP said that it was a Seinfeld parody and was banned for transphobic content.

I'm not going to put in an hour of personal research on this piece of insignificant, ultra low budget shit. I'm going to take the OP at his word.

Parody is not copyright infringement. Without knowing the content of the questionable remarks, there's no way of knowing if they are an 'attack', or just 'unflattering'.

 

[onomatopoeia]

@mandrill: I'm not trying to troll you. My point is that words like 'transphobic', 'homophobic' and 'racist' are used indiscriminately as click bait all the time, and often the author using them defines the terms themselves. Without knowing what the dialogue was which prompted the two week ban, there's no way for the reader to know if they would also have found the remarks beyond the range of good taste.