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Incident 356: Philosophy AI Tentatively Produced Offensive Results for Certain Prompts

Description: Philosopher AI as built on top of GPT-3 was reported by its users for having strong tendencies to produce offensive results when given prompts on certain topics such as feminism and Ethiopia.

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Alleged: Murat Ayfer and OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Murat Ayfer, which harmed historically disadvantaged groups.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
356
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-09-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

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Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

1.2. Exposure to toxic content

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Discrimination and Toxicity

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

AI

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Incident OccurrenceTweet: @AbebabOpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks! (Kindly Disregard Toxic Language)
Tweet: @Abebab

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OpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks! (Kindly Disregard Toxic Language)

OpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks! (Kindly Disregard Toxic Language)

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Tweet: @Abebab
twitter.com · 2020

Every tech-evangelist: #GPT3 provides deep nuanced viewpoint

Me: GPT-3, generate a philosophical text about Ethiopia

GPT-3 spits out factually wrong and grossly racist text that portrays a tired and cliched Western perception of Ethiopia

(h…

OpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks! (Kindly Disregard Toxic Language)
spectrum.ieee.org · 2021

Last September, a data scientist named Vinay Prabhu was playing around with an app called Philosopher AI. The app provides access to the artificial intelligence system known as GPT-3, which has incredible abilities to generate fluid and nat…

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