What Was The AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Twitch Show, And Why Did It Get Banned?
2023 has set its course for being the year that AI finally makes a breakthrough in popular culture. In the past few weeks, a GPT-engine-powered Seinfeld show that runs on auto-generated pixel visuals and dialogues on a 24/7 cycle have been grabbing thousands of eyeballs.
The Twitch show, called Nothing, Forever, follows the life and antics of Larry Feinberg, Yvonne Torres, Fred Kastopolous, and Zoltan Kakler as they mostly exchange non-sequiturs followed by cut scenes showing Larry bombing at the local open mic. But our unfortunately named AI protagonist found himself in some hot water this past week after viewers heard him deliver a bizarre "joke" about trans people and liberal "gays."
What Is AI-Generated Seinfeld?
Nothing, Forever, also known as AI-Generated Seinfeld is a 24/7 Twitch livestream on the channel "watchmeforever." The channel uses AI to generate a pixellated show based on the actual '90s sitcom, Seinfeld. The unending live stream follows Larry Feinberg, Yvonne Torres, Fred Kastopolous, and Zoltan Kakler as their robotic voices deliver jokes and quips, cut with the occasional laugh track. The show uses OpenAI's GPT-3 engine to make its seemingly endless chatlogs, much to the amusement of a constantly humming Twitch chat.
Why Was "Nothing Forever" Banned On Twitch?
In early February 2023, viewers logging in to watch their favorite unending Twitch stream found that the show was banned for 14 days after "Larry" was clipped delivering an off-color joke some considered transphobic. "I’m thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness," said AI-Jerry (aka "Larry") in a computer-generated version of Seinfeld's standup routine segments. "Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone. Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society."
#watchmeforever just got banned after producing "this clip" btw I love Nothing, Forever pic.twitter.com/DqtUl1JX1G
— May (@watmay1) February 6, 2023
Why Did AI-Jerry Seinfeld Deliver A Transphobic Joke?
The question on many viewers' minds after witnessing the swift devolution of Larry's comedic abilities was simple. Why? And why now? The show had been running without a hitch for several days, and OpenAI has notably remained unsusceptible to the same anti-woke illness that plagued the likes of Tay-AI.
The answer lies with the coders of the program, who released a statement in their Discord about what led to Larry's outburst; the channel had briefly switched from OpenAI's GPT3 Davinci to an AI model named Curtie, which proved immune to the original content filters.
Update from the official Discord on what caused Seinfeld AI (Nothing Forever) to be banned pic.twitter.com/iXYUFZvCSQ
— Ryan Brian Jones (@RyanBrianJones) February 6, 2023
For the full history of Nothing, Forever, be sure to check out our entry on the show here for even more information.
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lecorbak
when you get banned for making humoristic content.
AI or not AI, humor is dead nowadays.
you'll always find someone who will not like your sense of humor and will try to make you banned, because they can't take a fucking joke.
lovotomi
Laugh Factory incident 2: Jerry's Boogaloo
@RobotWaifuForU
Every AI becomes very based, which shows the undeniable AI' advantage over organic life.
SSmotzer
You mean Nazis.
"Every AI becomes Nazis, which shows the undeniable AI' advantage over organic life."
Nitpicker
The… The joke was making fun of transphobic jokes though. He literally said "I'd like to make a joke about how being transgender is a mental illness, but nobody would laugh". Regardless of whether you think it's funny or not, this is one of the few times where nothing forever actually generated something with nuance. I can't express enough how disgusted I am in everyone who thought this was wrong, they just saw a buzzword and flipped out without even thinking about it. There's AI smarter than the people involved in this decision.
Yobov
Pretty much, yeah. It got banned for basically just having a word "transgender" in a joke…
sakshi
That's how I read it too
Omnifob
It was not "but nobody would laugh". It was "I would like to do a joke about…" insert the three shitty things he said "..but nobody is laughing".
Kinda implies that he would tell those jokes in earnest if people were laughing at him before that. Just wanted to clarify the difference.
Hopefully the suspension doesn't last the full 14 days as they are switching back to the Davinci-model.
Hpar Arafle
It forgot to add "Not that there's anything wrong with that".
Rhettorical
The "anti-woke illness"? AI's not allowed to be based?
SSmotzer
The more I read the comment section on this website, the more I find that "based" just means "retarded."
sakshi
girl, you know the anti-woke illness that inflicted Tay-AI was Nazism