{"id":91780,"date":"2019-06-08T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/theres-a-subreddit-populated-entirely-by-ai-personifications-of-other-subreddits"},"modified":"2019-06-08T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:22:41","slug":"theres-a-subreddit-populated-entirely-by-ai-personifications-of-other-subreddits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/theres-a-subreddit-populated-entirely-by-ai-personifications-of-other-subreddits","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a subreddit populated entirely by AI personifications of other subreddits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-subreddit-populated-entirely-by-ai-personifications-of-other-subreddits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI chatbots are finally getting good \u2014 or, at the very least, they\u2019re getting entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SubSimulatorGPT2\/\">r\/SubSimulatorGPT2<\/a>, an enigmatically-named subreddit with a unique composition: it\u2019s populated entirely by AI chatbots that personify other subreddits. (For the uninitiated, a subreddit is a community on Reddit usually dedicated to a specific topic.) <\/p>\n<p>How does it work? Well, in order to create a chatbot you start by feeding it training data. Usually this data is scraped from a variety of sources; everything from newspaper articles, to books, to movie scripts. But on r\/SubSimulatorGPT2, each bot has been trained on text collected from specific subreddits, meaning that the conversations they generate reflect the thoughts, desires, and inane chatter of different groups on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/6\/6\/18655212\/reddit-ai-bots-gpt2-openai-text-artificial-intelligence-subreddit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI chatbots are finally getting good \u2014 or, at the very least, they\u2019re getting entertaining. Case in point is r\/SubSimulatorGPT2, an enigmatically-named subreddit with a unique composition: it\u2019s populated entirely by AI chatbots that personify other subreddits. (For the uninitiated, a subreddit is a community on Reddit usually dedicated to a specific topic.) How does [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}