The project sparked a lot of criticism and debate in the AI community and beyond, as many people questioned the ethics, legality, and social impact of creating and distributing such a model. He also made the model publicly available on Hugging Face, a platform for sharing and using AI models, until it was removed from the platform.
Kilcher deployed the model on the /pol/ board itself, where it interacted with other users without revealing its identity. The model learned to mimic the style and tone of /pol/ users, producing text that is often intentionally offensive to groups (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.) and nihilistic. The model is a large language model, which means it can generate text based on some input, by fine-tuning GPT-J with a dataset of millions of posts from the /pol/ board of 4chan, an anonymous online forum known for its hateful and extremist content. Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4Chan (GPT4-Chan) is a controversial AI model that was developed and deployed by YouTuber and AI researcher Yannic Kilcher in June 2022. Large language model * Generative pre-trained transformer.