At first, it seemed the text-based choose-your-own-adventure game 'AI Dungeon' was a model example of the exciting potential of automated writing software. Instead, the game has become a lesson in the dark side of text generation.
. OpenAI said it would carefully vet customers to weed out bad actors, and required most customers—but not Latitude—to use filters the AI provider created to block profanity, hate speech, or sexual content.
“It’s really hard to know how these models are going to behave in the wild.” Suchin Gururangan, researcher, University of Washingtonprovided relatively unconstrained access to OpenAI’s text-generation technology. In December 2019, the month the game launched using the earlier open-source version of OpenAI’s technology, it won 100,000 players. Some quickly discovered and came to cherish its fluency with sexual content.
Latitude cofounder Nick Walton acknowledged the problem on the game’s official Reddit community within days of launching. He said several players had sent him examples that left them “feeling deeply uncomfortable,” adding that the company was working on filtering technology. From the game’s early months, players also noticed—and posted online to flag—that it would sometimes write children into sexual scenarios.
Latitude declined to share figures on how many adventures contained sexual content. OpenAI’s website says
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