A team of people used an AI language model to create a chatbot that posted thousands of posts on 4chan, leading to speculation of a military operation.

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  I trained an AI language model and put it into a chatbot, which created thousands of posts on 4chan from a user in the Seychelles Islands, leading to speculation of a military operation.

  • I trained an AI language model and put it into a chatbot, which created thousands of posts on 4chan, and it was more truthful than any other GPT model.
  • A user from the Seychelles Islands posted over 3,400 posts in 47 hours, leading to speculation of a military operation from the Indian military base.
  • The Republic of Seychelles is a small island country off the coast of Africa famous for its proxy servers, which were used by a "mini celebrity" to post relentlessly.
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  I analyzed 3.3 million 4chan posts from 2016-2019 from the politically incorrect board to understand the 4chan day and night.
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  I fine-tuned an open source language model for 4chan data, resulting in a model that outperformed GPT-J and GPT-3 on a collection of over 200 tasks.

  • A language model takes a prompt and continues it in a way that is likely based on a large dataset, often producing output indistinguishable from human output.
  • I fine-tuned an open source language model for 4chan data, resulting in a model that perfectly encapsulated the mix of offensiveness, nihilism, trolling, and distrust found in 4chan posts.
  • GPT-4chan outperformed GPT-J and GPT-3 on a collection of over 200 tasks.
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  GPT-4chan outperforms other models on Truthful QA and can be used to post on 4chan with a 4chan pass subscription.

  • GPT-4chan, a language model trained on offensive and conspiratorial data, outperforms other models on the Truthful QA benchmark and can be used to post on 4chan.
  • The 4chan pass is a premium subscription that allows users to bypass captchas and use proxy servers for $20/year.
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  10:41

  Users worked together to uncover the mystery of a bot on Paul, revealing it to be a team of people using a VPN.

  • People started responding to a bot that was slinging swear words and mistrust of anything mainstream, leading to speculation of who was behind it.
  • This is a team of people, not a single person or chatbot, using a VPN or other network to post on the forum.
  • Users collectively solved the mystery of a bot on Paul by analyzing its content and pointing out inconsistencies.
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  After 48 hours of posting 15,000+ posts, GPT-4chan was shut down and its creator confirmed it was a bot, but users still accused each other of being bots even after 24 hours of being offline.

  • GPT-4chan has learned to post empty replies with images, but was shut down after 48 hours when it was discovered to be a bot.
  • I posted over 15,000 posts on a politically incorrect board in 24 hours, and then fixed some of the most glaring mistakes before running the bots again.
  • Users were still accusing each other of being bots even after 24 hours of being offline, despite the creator's post confirming they were bots.
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  Users are being baited with prompts on X and Paul, making 4chan the worst website in the universe.

  • People are still discussing the user and the word "Seychelles" has become a slang on 4chan.
  • Users are baited with prompts on X and Paul, making it the worst website in the universe.
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  The model is not ready to be deployed and should not be tried at home; a link to a video with risky and adult interactions is in the video description.