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Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts

Occurred
Sep 1, 2020
Published
Oct 7, 2020
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Philosopher AI, a GPT-3-powered controversial text generator, was allegedly used by an anonymous actor on AskReddit subreddit, whose posts featured a mixture of harmless stories, conspiracy theories, and sensitive topic discussions.

Developers

  • Murat Ayfer
  • OpenAI

Deployers

  • Unknown

Harmed parties

  • Reddit users

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: GPT-3 text generator used to create mixed content on Reddit, representing a language model misuse incident.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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