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Re:AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes by btown on Monday February 06, 2023 @11:10AM (#34679503)
Intent matters, and there are a lot of people who would say the exact words that the AI said, not with the intention to provoke thought but with the intention to normalize hate. A temporary ban while there is ambiguity about the intent is not unreasonable. But Twitch should be criticized if it persists in the ban after it discovers, as it should have by now, that it was not the intention of this channel's creators, and that the channel's creators are working in good faith to prevent anything that could be construed as normalizing hate in the future.
Re:AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes by jimmaswell on Monday February 06, 2023 @12:19PM (#34680684)
> say the exact words that the AI said, not with the intention to provoke thought but with the intention to normalize hate

The "but nobody is laughing" part would run counter to this. The premise of the whole joke is that the referenced jokes aren't funny.

Re:AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes by brookst on Monday February 06, 2023 @01:06PM (#34681492)
Yeah, but it’s that weird “I was only kidding, can’t you take a joke” space. Like everyone agrees that shouting racial slurs is bad behavior, but does the characterization change if you then say “see, nobody approved”?
Re:AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes by btown on Monday February 06, 2023 @03:28PM (#34683848)
And it's not far from the "can't you take a joke" space to the "I'm making fun of how woke the audience has become" space. And heaven knows there's plenty of training data on the web to train an AI to mimic and normalize the latter!