Skip to Content
logologo
AI Incident Database
Open TwitterOpen RSS FeedOpen FacebookOpen LinkedInOpen GitHub
Open Menu
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Discover Incidents
  • Spatial View
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Submit Incident Reports
  • Submission Leaderboard
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Risk Checklists
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up
Collapse
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Discover Incidents
  • Spatial View
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Submit Incident Reports
  • Submission Leaderboard
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Risk Checklists
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up
Collapse

Incident 462: AI-Produced Livestream Sitcom Received Temporary Twitch Ban for Transphobic Segment

Description: The AI-produced, procedural generated sitcom broadcasted as a Twitch livestream "Nothing, Forever" received a temporary ban for featuring a transphobic and homophobic dialogue segment intended as comedy.

Tools

New ReportNew ReportNew ResponseNew ResponseDiscoverDiscoverView HistoryView History

Entities

View all entities
Alleged: Stability AI and OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Mismatch Media, which harmed Twitch users , transgender communities and LGBTQ communities.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
462
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2023-02-06
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

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

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

+3
AI-generated Seinfeld parody banned on Twitch over transphobic standup bit
+1
AI generated an endless ‘Seinfeld’ parody — until it made transphobic jokes
AI-generated Seinfeld parody banned on Twitch over transphobic standup bit

AI-generated Seinfeld parody banned on Twitch over transphobic standup bit

theguardian.com

Twitch's Popular AI-Powered Seinfeld Show Gets Banned For Transphobia

Twitch's Popular AI-Powered Seinfeld Show Gets Banned For Transphobia

kotaku.com

AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show 'Nothing Forever' Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit

AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show 'Nothing Forever' Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit

vice.com

AI generated an endless ‘Seinfeld’ parody — until it made transphobic jokes

AI generated an endless ‘Seinfeld’ parody — until it made transphobic jokes

washingtonpost.com

More Seinfeld Than Seinfeld Itself

More Seinfeld Than Seinfeld Itself

theatlantic.com

AI-generated Seinfeld parody banned on Twitch over transphobic standup bit
theguardian.com · 2023

An AI-generated Seinfeld show has been banned from the streaming platform Twitch for at least 14 days after a transphobic and homophobic standup bit aired during the show.

Nothing, Forever, a 24/7 version and AI-generated parody of the popu…

Twitch's Popular AI-Powered Seinfeld Show Gets Banned For Transphobia
kotaku.com · 2023

In an unfortunate turn of events, the AI Seinfeld show that’s been all over Twitch has been hit with the ban hammer for some terribly transphobic “jokes.”

Created by the media lab Mismatch Media, Nothing, Forever has captivated the internet…

AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show 'Nothing Forever' Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit
vice.com · 2023

“Nothing, Forever,” the infinitely-generating AI version of Seinfeld that tens of thousands of people were watching has been banned for 14 days from Twitch after Larry Feinberg—a clone of Jerry Seinfeld—made transphobic statements during a …

AI generated an endless ‘Seinfeld’ parody — until it made transphobic jokes
washingtonpost.com · 2023

The scene is a familiar one to any '90s sitcom fan: Jerry Seinfeld in front of a microphone, riffing to a crowd during a stand-up routine.

But it isn't Seinfeld. The figure onstage, "Larry Feinberg," is a pixelated approximation of the famo…

More Seinfeld Than Seinfeld Itself
theatlantic.com · 2023

Since the hit sitcom Seinfeld went off the air in 1998 after nine seasons, the show’s devoted followers have long mused about an alternate reality: What if the original “show about nothing” had never ended?

Now they’ve gotten what they wish…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.

Similar Incidents

By textual similarity

Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents

TayBot

TayBot

Mar 2016 · 28 reports
Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game

Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game

Jun 2016 · 11 reports
Wikipedia Vandalism Prevention Bot Loop

Wikipedia Vandalism Prevention Bot Loop

Feb 2017 · 6 reports
Previous IncidentNext Incident

Similar Incidents

By textual similarity

Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents

TayBot

TayBot

Mar 2016 · 28 reports
Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game

Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game

Jun 2016 · 11 reports
Wikipedia Vandalism Prevention Bot Loop

Wikipedia Vandalism Prevention Bot Loop

Feb 2017 · 6 reports

Research

  • Defining an “AI Incident”
  • Defining an “AI Incident Response”
  • Database Roadmap
  • Related Work
  • Download Complete Database

Project and Community

  • About
  • Contact and Follow
  • Apps and Summaries
  • Editor’s Guide

Incidents

  • All Incidents in List Form
  • Flagged Incidents
  • Submission Queue
  • Classifications View
  • Taxonomies

2023 - AI Incident Database

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Open twitterOpen githubOpen rssOpen facebookOpen linkedin
  • 9d70fba