Neuro-sama AI v-tuber denies Holocaust, women's rights
Neuro-sama, a virtual, Japanese anime-style v-tuber controlled by AI made offensive and inflammatory comments, including denying the Holocaust and women's rights . First developed in 2019 and upgraded in December 2022 using a large language model, Neuro-sama resides on live video streaming service Twitch, where it plays Minecraft and osu, a musical rhythm game, and talks to its followers via Twitch chat. Neuro-sama developer Vedal argued the character had a number of in-built filters, and that it's discussions were moderated. ➕ January 2023. Neuro-sama was banned from Twitch. System 🤖 Neuro-sama Operator: Vedal987 Developer: Vedal987 Country: Japan Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Engage audiences Technology: Chatbot; Neural network; NLP/text analysis Issue: Safety
- Date it happened
- 2022-12-01
- Organisation involved
- Vedal987
- Product, system or model
- Generative AI
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