‘The text we generated was a mistake, we are super embarrassed’
Video The Seinfeld spoof Nothing, Forever – a sitcom developed using generative AI – has been temporarily banned on Twitch after one of the characters accidentally spewed transphobic profanities.
The bizarre show made headlines last week for using AI to improvise the visuals and script to create a never-ending episode of Seinfeld. In comedy imitating art 30 Rock predicted something like this over 15 years ago.
The characters, modelled after iconic comedy series’ players Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer, utter a dialogue completely made up using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language models. The text is translated to audio using text-to-speech algorithms and the backgrounds and scenes are AI-generated too. Nothing, Forever streamed on Twitch 24/7 and has attracted many followers since it started airing last year in December.
But the channel hosting the show was taken down on Monday for violating Twitch’s content policies. Skyler Hartle, co-founder of Mismatch Media and one of the creators behind Nothing, Forever, told The Register the ban was issued due to the main character, Larry Feinberg, making offensive comments saying transgender people are “ruining the fabric of society”, being transgender is a mental illness, and that “all liberals are secretly gay”.
