AI’s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your “second brain,” to invent “new physics,” or to become the genius autodidact you always dreamed of being.
Or you can drop these pretensions and just use it to crank out unimaginable amounts of fetish slop, as a group of researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Boulder currently in the middle of pouring bleach on their eyeballs inadvertently discovered.
While analyzing a dataset comprising millions of conversations with an old version of ChatGPT, these innocent academics encountered a user who is — it’s no exaggeration to say — the final boss of AI gooners.
Specifically, this anonymous horndog spent months using the OpenAI chatbot to generate vividly detailed pregnancy fanfiction about the high school characters in the visual novel series “Doki Doki Literature Club!” (itself a bizarre piece of media that the uninitiated will need to research for themselves.)
