LLMMedium
YouTuber Built, Made Publicly Available, and Released Model Trained on Toxic 4chan Posts as Prank
- Occurred
- Jun 3, 2022
- Published
- Jun 7, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A YouTuber built GPT-4chan, a model based on OpenAI’s GPT-J and trained on posts containing racism, misogyny, and antisemitism collected from 4chan’s “politically incorrect” board, which he made publicly available, and deployed as multiple bots posting thousands of messages on the same 4chan board as a prank.
Developers
- Yannic Kilcher
Deployers
- Yannic Kilcher
Harmed parties
- internet social platform users
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Model trained on toxic data and deployed as bots, causing controversy without physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8