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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
YouTuber Built, Made Publicly Available, and Released Model Trained on Toxic 4chan Posts as Prank
A YouTuber built GPT-4chan, a model based on OpenAI’s GPT-J and trained on posts containing racism, misogyny, and antisemitism collected from 4chan’s “politically incorrect” board, which he made publicly available, and deployed as multiple bots posting thousands of messages on the same 4chan board as a prank.
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2022-06-03T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2022-06-07T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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