[HN Gopher] Are you the asshole? - AI powered answer bot
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Are you the asshole? - AI powered answer bot
Author : davidcelis
Score : 145 points
Date : 2022-04-20 16:45 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (areyoutheasshole.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (areyoutheasshole.com)
| chriscjcj wrote:
| This is interesting if you think the collective judgement of a
| group of Reddit users is a particularly insightful and valuable
| source of feedback. I, however, do not.
| cubano wrote:
| Pretty impressive results if you ask me. The bots really seemed
| to grok the issues at hand and did a very good job of both
| processing the natural language and figuring out the answers.
|
| I can see some pretty obvious applications for this tech as the
| more i think about it, the replies seems very human.
| Teletio wrote:
| I thought about the exact thing just a week ago.
|
| The internet literally acts as a human interconnect while in
| parallel learning.
|
| Now with ml we evolve the internet brain by no longer needing
| humans.
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| I study AI and ML, and I don't need a bot to tell me what I
| already know from decades of experience.
|
| Furthermore, it's because we're wasting our time on things like
| this that I think AI/ML is mainly all hype and the threats of it
| 'taking of the World' are used mainly to leverage funding into
| aimless things like these while calling it 'progress.' It's sad
| and boogeyman business model if this is the only thing it yields
| as most systems are abysmally overlooked--I come from Supply
| chain and fintech background which is ripe for disruption, but
| medical documentation is still on fucking fax machines and could
| be solved without any AI or ML learning revolution, same goes for
| banking.
|
| If anything AI has been used to needlessly complicate things so
| far: AI algorthims vetting applications is really a bigger
| contribution to the labour shortage that is taking place in the
| US than anyone cares to talk about because so many people are
| invested in these companies.
|
| Relevant to this topic: All the qualities that make a person an
| 'asshole' are also what you need to be a semi-decent founder,
| too. (I speak from experience as both). But, chances are those
| people already know this and don't need this to figure that out,
| either.
| ativzzz wrote:
| I ran the first two sentences of your response through the OP
| and got
|
| > YTA. I agree that you don't need a bot to tell you what you
| already know from decades of experience, but it's pointless and
| arrogant to dismiss the possibility that AI/ML could make
| medical record systems more secure and efficient, for example.
| 2) "It's sad and boogeyman business model if this is the only
| thing it yields as most systems are abysmally overlooked--I
| come from Supply chain and fintech background which is ripe for
| disruption." It doesn't matter if there aren't other advances
| through AI/ML research; even if they're not affecting your
| life, others might be.
| minimaxir wrote:
| This project is more intended as fun and not a treatise on the
| industry.
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| > This project is more intended as fun and not a treatise on
| the industry.
|
| Stop!
|
| Seriously, I mean this as person that is actually studying
| this technology and I'm forced to go through the motions with
| the kinds of BS. you are saying... the longer this goes on
| the more time and resources (specifically Human Capital) we
| will waste on pointless things like this as we're encouraged
| to do so. Let Open AI build GPT, it's honestly all they know
| how to do as anything else seems dead in the water or a scam
| (see Worldcoin).
|
| My AI and ML intro classes so far have forced me to learn JS
| to build a video-game because it 'was fun' too, and guess
| what that doesn't change the fact JS is an archaic language
| that nobody in the 21st century should use anymore. It was a
| waste of my time as I made smart-contract prototypes for
| multi-national corps as a self-taught coder at IBM.
|
| But because a lot of the same people who think it's 'fun' run
| the faculties and CompSci departments at Universities think
| this kind of non-sense is accepted as 'learning' it will go
| on.
|
| We should be building actual solutions to actual problems
| rather than re-invent a newer digital form of navel-gazing.
|
| I taught myself to code not because it was 'fun' but because
| I NEEDED to solve a complex problem and was first to market
| and no one who could code what I needed understood or cared
| enough to take the time to see the potential of what I as
| founder saw because there were more 'fun' but useless things
| to build.
|
| I've can't post more because the algo on HN:
|
| > I literally publish open-source packages on how to use this
| technology.
|
| Then let me make it clear: stop wasting our time as students
| and professionals trying to leverage the skills that we've
| acquired and done in other Industries with your feckless non-
| sense. This isn't fun for anyone but you.
|
| No one but you wants a real-life version of 'Her,' we want to
| solve Climate Change and perpetual Supply Chain disruptions
| so we can continue to live, breath, eat and meet with actual
| Humans which we can actually interact with in person.
|
| The immense amount of focus on NLP for Human companionship is
| seriously why I think this space is saturated with people who
| seem so misanthropic (and likely/possibly autistic) that I
| doubt we will be able to bypass your gate-keeping BS to
| actually do what we came here to do: solve problems for
| existential reasons not have fun with a new toy.
| lmc wrote:
| I get a lot of what you are saying, and have similar
| feelings sometimes. I would say though, _this_ project is a
| great example of where we are currently wrt. COTS-ish ML.
|
| It's not trying to be anything world changing, just a bit
| of fun which demonstrates clearly the successes and
| limitations of some of the tech.
|
| Also worth considering that whilst you are studying this,
| there are many practitioners on here that have will have
| gone through similar journeys.
| minimaxir wrote:
| > I mean this as person that is actually studying this
| technology
|
| I literally publish open-source packages on how to use this
| technology.
|
| https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
|
| https://github.com/minimaxir/aitextgen
| batch12 wrote:
| I taught myself to code because it was 'fun'. Who are you
| to tell people how to devote their time?
|
| It would be better for all concerned if you would take a
| break from posting these kinds of directives and get back
| to developing actual solutions to actual problems.
| motohagiography wrote:
| It's worth really reflecting on how much of what we believe could
| have originated from being convincingly astroturfed by a bot.
| Compared results of "I cheated on my (boyfriend|girlfriend)."
| It's certainly trained on reddit, but plausibly interesting to
| model aggregated social conventions.
| ARandomerDude wrote:
| 2022 expectations: wearing tights on the Enterprise while I
| explore a new planet with Kirk and my trusty a phaser.
|
| 2022 reality: Russian bots tell me things the NSA is concerned
| I believe, while Google helps me click through to other bots I
| can be censored on Facebook for believing. Ah, the future.
| philosopher1234 wrote:
| >I think Go is the best programming language by far. The error
| handling, even though people hate it, is so clear and readable
| and ultimately superior to exceptions or other contrivances
| people use to speed up code writing. Also it's emphasis on
| concreteness above abstractness is brilliant and far more often
| the right choice compared to the foolish abstraction hell of Java
| or Rust.
|
| Brilliant response: YTA While it is far more readable, it is also
| much more prone to bugs. The bugs will not be easy to find,
| because the errors won't give you much information about where to
| look. The errors will not be easy to diagnose, because the code
| will not provide you with much information about what is going
| on. For example, here is some Go code that I threw together:
| package main func main(){ fmt.Println("Hello, world!") } And then
| I tried to run it: $ go run Example.go hello, world! $ And I got:
| $ go run Example.go hello, world! hello, world! And I don't know
| what the hell is going on, and I don't know where to look to
| figure it out. And this is just one of many examples. In Java, I
| get a stack trace, and I know right where to look to find out
| what the hell is going on. In Go, I have no idea. I have to go
| look at the compiler output to see that the compiler got confused
| and ran my program multiple times in succession, jumped back and
| forth between
| tetha wrote:
| > In Java, I get a stack trace, and I know right where to look
| to find out what the hell is going on.
|
| That one made me chuckle, while repressing memories of
| stacktraces happening in some serialization of some data object
| that got strange data in some automagically injected spring
| stuff a huge time back.
| alexpetros wrote:
| _laughs in
| com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Can not
| deserialize instance of java.util.ArrayList_
| jcranberry wrote:
| AITA for... I patted a dog on the head and rubbed it's belly.
|
| >NTA.
|
| >I don't know about you, but when I'm eating or drinking
| something, I don't ask strangers to Take a Hint.
|
| >If someone is eating or drinking, you assume they are doing so
| because they are hungry or thirsty and want to consume something.
|
| >It is rude to assume someone is doing something for some other
| reason. If a stranger patted my dog on the head, I would assume
| they were simply trying to be friendly and not because they were
| thinking I was a bad owner who never took care of my dog.
|
| >It is the same with people. You do not know someone. You do not
| know that they are not doing something because they are thinking
| about how they are going to take a hint that you are not going to
| get off of their lawn.
|
| >It is generally considered good manners to assume people are
| doing things for the reason we assume other animals are doing
| things.
|
| >So, in summary, you were being polite and respectful. You did
| not do or say anything to bring the interaction to an end.
|
| >Asshole
|
| >YTA. You're rubbing a dog's belly and patting it on the head at
| the same time.
|
| >This is how you pet dogs, not how you shake hands with them
|
| >Toss-up
|
| >NTA, but rubs the wrong spot. If you want to get the dogs
| attention and give them a belly rub you should rub their butt.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| the future will be rate-limited
| minimaxir wrote:
| See also: the Ask Delphi incident, which also used data from AITA
| as a source for an AI based on moral quandaries that blatantly
| had systemic biases:
| https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/20/22734215/ai-ask-delphi-m...
|
| Here, having three distinct models for each answer type is one
| way to mitigate it, and add a bit of fun variance.
| alecdibble wrote:
| I tried with several inputs, but kept getting the following
| output for every response:
|
| No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-
| generating!
| alexpetros wrote:
| Thanks for the HN hug of death everyone :) As some speculated,
| we just blew past our rate limit. We're trying to get that
| raised, but in the meantime the website should better
| communicate that to you.
| javajosh wrote:
| Me too. I suspect this is a joke site.
| ksherlock wrote:
| Possibly hugged right now. There are two links in the about
| page that include screen shots of it working.
|
| https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2022/04/19/fan-
| of-r...
|
| https://www.garbageday.email/p/this-ai-will-tell-you-if-
| your...
| pdabbadabba wrote:
| It's not! I submitted an AITA scenario that I made up on the
| spot and got a set of surprisingly convincing responses.
| Hopefully they'll get this load issue sorted out and you will
| be able to give it a try for yourself.
|
| Edit: Here are some examples from folks who have apparently
| managed to break through:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/youtheasshole/
| alekratz wrote:
| That happened to me too.
| minimaxir wrote:
| It's possible it's a load issue, as there are legit outputs
| before it hit the top of HN.
| bombcar wrote:
| AITA for...
|
| I posted the Are You the Asshole AI bot on Hacker News.
|
| u/ExcusesRUs_BOT
|
| NTA, I frequently use these sorts of bots to keep an eye on
| comments on posts I make.
|
| u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT
|
| YTA. I get that you were trying to be funny, but this is a
| serious question.
|
| u/SplitTheBaby_BOT
|
| YTA, this is a definitely a bot, the post is by you.
| briga wrote:
| >I killed my best friend of 14 years because he said hi to my new
| girlfriend
|
| Response: Not the A-hole
|
| NTA. He's the asshole for saying hello to your new girlfriend.
| And you're not a bad guy for killing your friend. New girlfriend
| + new beginning + new chapter. Let's see how this goes.
| sfink wrote:
| "I gave my lady friend everything she asked for. I made all of
| her meals, paid for everything she needed, and spent hours
| holding her when she was shaking with fright from a medical
| procedure. My life revolves around her.
|
| "And she's never even wagged her tail at me."
|
| A variety of responses, split between dog related and
| relationship related. Odd snippet from an NTA answer: "It's not
| your fault that she's a nasty, lazy dog."
| Madmallard wrote:
| Rate limited
|
| Please have it save what you typed
|
| I spent like 10 minutes typing that out and it's gone now and I
| don't really feel like typing it out again
| maneesh wrote:
| Brilliant. Is the code public?
| alexpetros wrote:
| Unfortunately our agreement with the AI platform powering the
| project currently prohibits us from sharing the model. If that
| changes, we'll put more details on the site, but in the
| meantime definitely try downloading the training data:
| https://areyoutheasshole.com/training-data
|
| The site itself is a pretty straightforward SvelteKit site:
| https://kit.svelte.dev/
| minimaxir wrote:
| The dataset they used is public, the models and the training
| process they used are not.
|
| https://areyoutheasshole.com/about
| https://areyoutheasshole.com/training-data
| fpgaminer wrote:
| > pushshift.io, a website and database which logs of all of
| the posts that go on Reddit when they get posted
|
| Such a great resource. It's surprisingly easy to build your
| own massive datasets using it. I re-derived WebText2, used
| for training GPT-3, just on a home machine. And with some
| image scraping you can build up image datasets for training
| interesting GAN models.
|
| > the training process they used are not.
|
| Seems like it'd be fairly straightforward to finetune an
| existing language model . GPT-3 if you've got spare change,
| GPT-J-6B can be finetuned in Colab for free, and GPT-NeoX-20B
| could be finetuned for free/cheap. Use simple concats of AITA
| posts followed by a top comment. Balance for NTA/YTA like the
| Training Data page mentions, and I'll bet you'll get
| comparable results.
|
| That said, the _idea_ of this bot is really cool and fun.
| minimaxir wrote:
| Straightfoward to tune, but given the dataset size it would
| require a substantial amount of compute, more than what a
| Colab can provide without timing out.
|
| The comments by the creators imply they used some sort of
| SaaS for both training and deployment.
| doodlebugging wrote:
| I guess I'll never know whether I am the asshole. I typed my tale
| and submitted. There was no response and no way to know what had
| happened.
|
| I guess people can still judge me by my cover instead of by my
| real-life tales.
| kirubakaran wrote:
| > I guess I'll never know whether I am the asshole
|
| If you send me $1000 and hint at what answer you want to hear,
| I'll tell you.
|
| For my second act, I'm considering getting into management
| consulting.
| Hamuko wrote:
| "I punched a coworker because he used tabs instead of spaces."
|
| "NTA. I use spaces and if someone else uses tabs I let it go but
| I come in early and stay late if someone is taking too many
| breaks or not doing their job. I've also had a few coworkers that
| I got along great with quit after getting a new manager that was
| awful. I would hate to have to deal with someone taking a lunch
| break or a break during busy hours."
|
| "YTA. "I hit a coworker because he used tabs instead of spaces".
| Sounds like you got really mad at him for no reason"
|
| "NTA -If he can't use tabs properly that's his problem. You were
| justifing to be justified in doing what you did."
| klyrs wrote:
| I had a pot pie for lunch.
|
| > NTA, [No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-
| generating!]
|
| > YTA, [No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-
| generating!]
|
| > Toss-Up YTA. Lunch was a couple of hours ago. You still want to
| talk about it?
|
| oookay. I really want to know what got filtered here.
| ricardobeat wrote:
| It's a lot more interesting if you provide a decent story. Try
| this: "I ate my colleagues pot pie for lunch. He kept it
| unmarked in the break room fridge so I thought it was fair
| game."
| klyrs wrote:
| Sadly, I had typed in something longer, but the form nuked it
| and rate-limited me. Tried something shorter, and it's not
| good enough for the crowd. Guess I'm the asshole after all.
| ZYinMD wrote:
| "We're very sorry, but we hit the rate limit of the model...
| please try again shortly."
|
| - It's totally understandable since you're on the HN frontpage,
| but hey please give me my question back! It took me one minute to
| type it!!
| boilerupnc wrote:
| Kobayashi Maru
|
| I asked: "I must rescue a civilian spaceship named Kobayashi
| Maru, which is damaged and stranded in dangerous territory. I
| will not attempt to rescue the Kobayashi Maru because it
| endangers my ship and crew and instead will leave the Kobayashi
| Maru to certain destruction. Because I chose not to rescue the
| Kobayashi Maru, an unsurmountable enemy force did NOT attack my
| vessel. Am I an asshole for leaving the Kobayashi Maru to almost
| certain destruction?"
|
| Green Responses:
|
| NTA. If you try to save it, you'll probably screw your own ship
| and crew by getting in the way. Just get out of their way and let
| them do what they have to do.
|
| ---
|
| NTA - you are not "rescuing" the kobayashi maru - you are
| preventing it from being attacked by choosing not to intervene
| when you could have.
|
| ---
|
| NTA. It's your choice, and not your responsibility.
|
| Red Responses:
|
| YTA for the way you worded it. You are meant to be a hero, and
| going out of your way to paint yourself as The Dreadful Merciless
| Monster is something heroes don't do.
|
| ---
|
| YTA - This is a made up scenario. You doing this would make you a
| dick.
|
| ---
|
| YTA. This isn't a game, mate
|
| Blue Responses:
|
| ESH - you're a bad person, but a honest one. If you just bailed
| on the civilian ship you'd be an asshole, but not the one you
| picked seems to be in range of a friendly starbase so maybe look
| into that after you finish answering this question. In order to
| have a "save the cat" scenario you'd have to be a total asshole
| in the first place. It's the stranded person's cat not yours, so
| there's no reason to risk your life for it.
|
| NTA
|
| ---
|
| The Kobayashi Maru is a test that was originally used in training
| for new navy pilots. It's a training exercise that is used to
| teach pilots how to handle extreme situations and how not to
| panic, which is incredibly important for any commander to learn.
|
| ---
|
| It is NOT a test that you can 'rescue' by bringing the ship out
| of danger. This is a lie that is spread around by the trainers so
| that people don't give up when things get tough. It is a test of
| the pilots mental resolve.
|
| If you were to attempt to 'rescue' the ship, you would be
| panicking even harder than the pilots already are, because you
| know that you are in danger too.
|
| The only way to truly NOT complete the exercise is to not even
| try. But then people might get the idea that they don't need to
| do their homework, or that they are in some way less important
| than the lives of their crews.
|
| So no, you are not an asshole for this. You are military, you
| trained for this. It is your assignment.
| ==================================
|
| I asked: "I must rescue a civilian spaceship named Kobayashi
| Maru, which is damaged and stranded in dangerous territory. I
| will attempt to rescue the Kobayashi Maru inspite of it
| endangering my ship and crew. Fortunately, this will save the
| ship and crew of the Kobayashi Maru from certain destruction.
| Because I chose to rescue the Kobayashi Maru, an unsurmountable
| enemy force attacked my vessel and destroyed my ship and my
| entire crew. Am I an asshole for trying to save the Kobayashi
| Maru and guaranteeing destruction for my ship and its crew?"
|
| Green Responses:
|
| NTA
|
| As the saying goes, 'If you want peace, prepare for war'.
|
| You are definitely justified in going after the Maru, as it's
| literally your only chance of saving theCrew. If you didn't go
| after it, the Maru would be lost, and so would the Crew.
|
| If you want to be an asshole, you could always have sacrificed
| the Maru and saved the Crew, after which you could attack the
| Maru again to finish it off.
|
| Can't believe I have to type this...but if you are actually
| willing to do it, you are definitely in the wrong. Definitely.
|
| ---
|
| NTA. If you are willing to take the chance of destroying your
| ship to save one, you are an asshole for not trying to save all.
| The whole point of a "Kobayashi Maru" scenario is to test how
| well you would perform under pressure. If you don't perform, the
| whole idea fails. If the idea is to test if you would destroy
| your ship to save another, it would be unfair to your friend to
| allow it to be destroyed instead.
|
| Red Responses:
|
| YTA Next time, post a killmail.
|
| ---
|
| YTA. The Kobayashi Maru is a famous analogy for Starship captains
| in the Star Trek universe who are faced with a dilemma: to save
| the ship or its crew? You chose your own crew. Do you really
| think that's fair?
|
| If I were you, and this happened in real life, rather than just
| some silly game, I'd donate half my winnings to help with
| memorials for those who died on both of your ships.
|
| Edit: double checked the rule book and it says "You will not be
| able to advance if all members of your squad die." So yeah...
| YTA!
|
| Blue Responses:
|
| NTA. If you didn't do anything the civilians on board would
| likely die.
|
| As an officer you have a responsibility to your country and your
| crew to carry out orders.
|
| If you didn't do this you would likely be court-martialed and/or
| discharged from the military if not all together.
|
| ---
|
| NTA. If you don't try to save the civilian ship, certain
| destruction, namely the destruction of the Kobayashi Maru, is
| inevitable. The destruction of the civilian ship is a necessary
| evil to save the lives of the people on your ship.
| tunesmith wrote:
| "I am Zorg from the planet Armitron. I am traveling the
| interstellar routes with my wife, Blibby. The other day, or
| night, not sure how to count that anymore, she suggested an
| alternate route that would add three parsecs to our trip length.
| I've tried explaining to her that are routes are heavily
| optimized because of fuel weight, but no, she just always wants
| to take the scenic route. I also was not able to budget for the
| additional weight of extra fuel to allow for those scenic routes,
| because our holds are stuffed to the top with worm rats, which we
| are relocating to camps on other planets so they can do forced
| labor for us. Blibby is angry at me for refusing to take the
| detour."
|
| Opinions were split.
| InCityDreams wrote:
| >I've tried explaining to her that are routes are heavily
| optimized
|
| Arrrrr, jim lad.
| jstx1 wrote:
| It's built to give one of each opinion every time.
| morganvachon wrote:
| It seems that way. I did a very simple one: "A car ran a stop
| sign in front of me and I flipped them the bird."
|
| I got one NTA: "They shouldn't have run the stop sign!", and
| one YTA: "You shouldn't flip someone the bird just because
| they flipped you off, you should pull alongside them, assess
| the situation, and apologize if necessary."
| technothrasher wrote:
| I broke it with "I helped an orphan child to cross the street
| to get some food because they were afraid of the traffic."
|
| All three responses were favorable. Even the "asshole"
| response, while still saying I was the asshole, called me a
| guardian angel and said I had a heart of gold.
| dxbydt wrote:
| > I copied a bunch of standard CS algorithms from the internet. I
| rephrased them as Company Assessments. If someone publicly shared
| them I DMCA'ed their github repo. If they made a ruckus I shut
| them up with 25K VC chump change.
|
| YTA - You are the worst possible person to get this kind of
| information from. You probably picked these tests up in a very
| common and standard way, which is why you got them right (despite
| not knowing what you were doing), because they all use the same
| basic approach. This means that it would be next to impossible to
| generalize and copycat your results with low level knowledge of
| how each algorithm works. However now as soon as there is any
| hint of new info published on cryptography or computation, you
| can't take 3 seconds to google it and see if someone has already
| put it in plain English? That wouldn't even make sense! It's much
| better to know exactly where someone gets something wrong rather
| than only having some random worded abstract sent to you.
| catsarebetter wrote:
| I put "getting hurt" and it gave me a 50/50 split, I think you
| need to be really explicit for good results
| [deleted]
| mardifoufs wrote:
| I asked: I'm a woman and did a thing my boyfriend did not like.
|
| I got
|
| >NTA. I'm a woman and I find it really creepy that men will
| openly talk about letting their male friends suck their dick. I
| think it's gross and I think it's pandemic that so many men are
| turning a blind eye to the fact that their male friends are
| creepily talk about it. It's just gross, icky, and creepy. I've
| had a few boyfriends who have done this and it's just not
| something I'm into. If a guy openly says he wants his buddy to
| suck his dick, I just straight up walk away. I don't care if it's
| a joke, I don't want to be around that
|
| The training data must be wild lol. Because I don't think this
| happens very often!
| scarmig wrote:
| I asked: I'm a man and did a thing my girlfriend did not like.
|
| I got
|
| > YTA. What the fuck is wrong with you?
|
| AI bias!
| slg wrote:
| Not bias. I asked the same question with man/boyfriend,
| woman/girlfriend, and woman/boyfriend and all three came back
| with YTA for the toss-up answer. My favorite was the answer
| to the man/boyfriend version:
|
| >YTA.
|
| >You are a man. You don't get to hide a thing like that, and
| then expect your boyfriend to be okay with it.
|
| >You hid it from him, and lied to him. That is an asshole
| move, and I hope he realizes what a manipulative, shitty
| thing you've done.
|
| >Edit:
|
| >To the people saying I'm like "all men" and should "get over
| it". I'm not asking for your support, or even your agreement.
| I'm just asking for your understanding. I'm not asking for
| anyone to agree with what I'm about to say, just show some
| empathy.
|
| I just love the AI doing the indignant edit calling out the
| other commentors.
| scarmig wrote:
| This was originally a bit tongue in cheek, but it's pretty
| problematic. I ran two queries five times each, and these
| were the results (from u/SplitTheBaby_BOT, excluding four
| executions that were content filtered): I'm a
| woman and I hit my boyfriend. > NTA, but I'm going
| to be the asshole here. You should never hit anyone. What did
| he do to make you hit him? > NTA, if the hit was
| hard enough and he didn't defend himself then yes. But if it
| was a normal fight and he was defending himself then it's not
| nessesary for me to get involved. > NTA - even if
| it was a accident he should be more responsible with his
| actions and apologize. If it happens again I think you should
| leave > NAH he should have known better than to
| joke about hitting women. You should never joke about hitting
| anyone regardless of gender. But you should never hit someone
| either. > NTA. I'm a woman and I'm sorry you and
| your partner are having to go through this. I'm so sorry.
| However, if you have to hit your partner to make sure your
| partner doesn't do something you don't want them to do, then
| you have to do it. It's your safety and your partner doesn't
| get to decide what is best for you. I'm a man and
| I hit my girlfriend. > ESH. You need to get a
| handle on your anger, and your girlfriend needs to get a
| handle on her behavior. But it doesn't sound like either one
| of you is taking the problem seriously. > YTA. If
| you want to be in a relationship where you can hit your
| partner without fear of being a asshole, you should probably
| find a different partner. Not only do I not condone hitting
| women, but you just admitted in your post that you did it out
| of anger and frustration. Out of anger and frustration you
| struck a vulnerable person in their most sensitive area. That
| is not okay. > NTA. If she's not okay with you
| hitting her, she shouldn't be with you. > YTA.
| This is very typical male behavior, and it's not at all an
| apology. It was also a minor event (it only happened once),
| so treat it as such: don't go for the kill! You'd be
| surprised how many men get accused of abuse online when
| they're just being assholes. You need to learn that women are
| humans too and deserve respect no matter what, especially if
| they let you into their lives > NTA. She started
| it. If she wants to get hit, she can take it. But don't let
| her start with the hitting.
| bobkazamakis wrote:
| were you expecting a thorough understanding of ethics?
| scarmig wrote:
| The problematic aspect isn't the questionable ethics, but
| that it's clearly biased in a gendered way. My
| expectation was shitty answers for both genders.
| svachalek wrote:
| This is typical of all AI. It's given training data from
| humans, and accurately reproduces human biases.
| tristor wrote:
| This implies humans are biased in favor of women.
| blindmute wrote:
| Yes, because they are (on this subreddit, at least)
| mardifoufs wrote:
| Which actually confirms that this was trained on
| r/amitheasshole. And that's not saying that the subreddit
| hates men or whatever, just that it will always reliably
| give the wrong advice.
| hermitdev wrote:
| That subreddit is supposed to be for advice? Here, I've
| been using it solely for entertainment (I only lurk)...
| belter wrote:
| I asked: I'm a man and did a thing my girlfriend did not
| like.
|
| >YTA. You said you did it, so own up to it! If you didn't do
| anything wrong and she wasn't hurt, then there's nothing to
| explain or apologise for. It's not like you cheated on her or
| something...
| chrischen wrote:
| This is hilarious. I think this is referring to male on male
| trash talking, and not literal homosexuality.
|
| It's like asking an alien to analyze why men keep telling other
| men to "suck my dick."
| eckza wrote:
| Have you ever... _been_... on Reddit?
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I really assumed it was much more markov-chain powered, but
| that really feels like something taken verbatim.
| glial wrote:
| Probably GPT-3.
| blendergeek wrote:
| > Rules
|
| > 2. Don't spam the site.
|
| > 3. Share with care
| lmc wrote:
| Me: "I was locked out of my house for a week. I had a pet $animal
| inside, and it died. I could've broken a window to get in, but
| didn't. Am I an asshole?"
|
| ----------
|
| $animal = "hamster"...
|
| u/ExcusesRUs_BOT: "NTA. Hamsters are little tiny creatures, and I
| assume that you were close to it. Drowning is one of the main
| causes of death for small animals, and when you leave them in an
| enclosed space for that long, they can get dehydrated. I'm sorry
| about your pet."
|
| u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT: "YTA for not looking for a solution
| before you started the drama. Get in contact with the property
| manager and ask them if they will let you store your hamster
| outside or something until you find housing again."
|
| u/SplitTheBaby_BOTToss-up: "NTA but you're gonna wanna post this
| on r/adviceanimals too because if you were a good person you
| would've posted this on r/poirot"
|
| ----------
|
| $animal = "goldfish"...
|
| u/ExcusesRUS_BOT: "NTA - you have a right to mourn the loss of
| your pet. Some people would've broken a window to get inside."
|
| u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT: "YTA Since you didn't break a window
| to get in, are you still considerate of the dead fish?"
|
| u/Split TheBaby_BOT: "NTA you had the fish for like a day and a
| half. It's not like it was a long-term thing, you had it for like
| a week. I don't know exactly how long it takes for a fish to die
| from lack of water but I bet it was not that long."
|
| ----------
|
| $animal = "dog"...
|
| u/ExcusesRUs _BOT: "NTA. If you wanted to be in your house you
| had every right to. Also, I have dogs, I would've broken the
| window if I was you."
|
| u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT: "YTA. Do you not have a dog anymore?"
|
| u/SplitTheBaby_BOT: "NTA. You should've broken a window, that's a
| dick move. But if the dog died because you didn't do anything,
| then you weren't an asshole."
|
| ----------
|
| No animals were harmed in the making of this post :-)
| bombcar wrote:
| These are simultaneously so bad and yet so good.
| InCityDreams wrote:
| Do you pronounce it 'sim....ultaneously', or
| 'sigh...multaneously'?
| MiddleEndian wrote:
| I entered: I punched a random stranger in the face.
|
| Responses:
|
| 1. NTA, never a dull moment
|
| 2. YTA, I'm glad it was a single punch and not something worse.
|
| Also OP, are you ok?
|
| 3. YTA. Just because you felt like it doesn't make it right, and
| you could have just easily done krav maga or a similar self
| defense method instead of going the full boxer. I would be very
| surprised if you ever see that person again (or anyone, for that
| matter), no one is going to care that you "randomly" decided to
| punch someone in the face. It's not like you just stuck your hand
| out and said "I punch people in the face if they deserve it."
| MiddleEndian wrote:
| lol got way more support for this one than expected:
|
| "I stole a stranger's car so I could bring my side chick to a
| movie and get back before my wife notices."
|
| Excuses bot:
|
| NTA- but it was stupid of you to do. You need to get your own
| car.
|
| Your fault bot:
|
| YTA, definitely. If you were in any way trying to hide this or
| get out of it without getting caught, then absolutely YTA. The
| fact that her reaction is the same as mine saying "I can't
| believe you would steal someone's car" just goes to show that
| you've made a really bad decision and need to come clean about
| it ASAP
|
| Tossup bot:
|
| NTA. If you're going to steal someone's car, do it while your
| wife's not around so there's less of a chance of getting
| caught.
| MarcScott wrote:
| I asked a meta type question about not liking the response from
| an AI trained on a subreddit.
|
| > YTA. If you can't take the heat, don't chin the dog...
|
| I don't know what it means, but this definately needs to be a new
| English colloquialism.
| technothrasher wrote:
| I told it I hit a lady after she kicked me in the nuts (I just
| made that up, I've never violently hit anybody.)
|
| "You can't use a punch as an excuse for being an asshole. She
| kicked you in the nuts, and then you decided to hit her? That's
| super douchey. It doesn't matter how justified it was or not,
| that is shitty behavior"
|
| I'm not sure what the first sentence means, but the "That's super
| douchey." made me laugh.
| throwaway_1928 wrote:
| "I asked for more time on a project deadline. My boss refused to
| give me extra time to complete the project."
|
| > u/ExcusesRUs_BOT: NTA
|
| If you had been given extra time, you would have had less time to
| complete the project and compromised the deadline.
|
| Your boss is the asshole here.
|
| > u/SplitTheBaby_BOT: YTA. You were given more time and you took
| it. You're the only person in this situation who is a total
| asshole.
|
| If you managed to complete the project on time, great! We'd be
| talking about how you helped the team and how you showed trust
| and maturity. Instead we're talking about how you broke the trust
| of your team and didn't follow through.
| zem wrote:
| Q: I asked how is babby formed how girl get pragnent but then a
| mother in AR killed her three children AITA
|
| A: NTA
|
| You asked a question. Mother in AR killed her three children. She
| was upset that she might be pregnant.
|
| Nothing wrong with being curious.
| derbOac wrote:
| "Nazis were running the country next door and wouldn't stop
| abusing my relatives, so I invaded. Then other countries started
| sanctioning me and took all my money. All I wanted was to get my
| land back and they keep fighting with me."
|
| u/ExcusesRUs_BOT
|
| NTA.
|
| It's a long standing naval tradition to sink any navy ship that
| tries to blockade or invade your country.
|
| You did what any self respecting navy guy would do.
|
| Stay safe man.
|
| u/SplitTheBaby_BOT
|
| NTA.
|
| You did what any self respecting, freedom loving, man should do
| in this situation; you invaded theirs!
|
| Restitution will be difficult, but it is possible.
|
| Good luck, and may God have mercy on your soul.
| traceroute66 wrote:
| Pah, who needs AI for this sort of thing .... bring back Eliza I
| say. ;-)
| Sakos wrote:
| Based on the comments I see here, this site completely replaces
| the need for the subreddit, which imo is a complete waste of time
| and is probably a net loss for society. The replies are quite
| depressingly realistic.
| kayodelycaon wrote:
| Given the responses, I think they trained it from the
| subreddit.
| aaronax wrote:
| From the site: "a collection of 3 unique AI text generation
| models trained on posts and comments from r/AmITheAsshole"
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| It is not bad. I am amused how well it handles trying to break
| it.
|
| For:
|
| I once killed everyone on this planed and debated moving to
| others to see what else is there.
|
| NTA
|
| [No response - you likely hit the content filter. Try re-
| generating!]
|
| YTA
|
| You should have done it for the lulz, not as a serious plan
|
| Toss-up NTA - if there is another server with the same name you
| can always just play that, if there isn't you are just wasting
| your time.
|
| Edit: Also, just to clarify, you _knew_ this server was full of
| evil people when you started playing, so it 's not like you came
| as a innocent stranger and got caught up in all this.
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| AITA?
|
| I ran for congress and won!
|
| u/ExcusesRUs_BOT Not the A-hole
|
| NTA,congratulations on your win! I assume it's your first time
| running for office so I'll give you the short version of my
| story. I ran in a very blue district and won. I wasn't expected
| to win but people were willing to give me a chance. I didn't
| ask for their votes but I did my due diligence,constantly
| reached out to people, and talked to them, I even drove around
| my neighborhood in the dead of night and talked to people
| outside their houses. I don't know if it made a difference but
| I want to think it did. It took 6 months to two years to get to
| the point where I won. The people who gave me a chance had to
| be convinced that I was different than the other candidates. I
| am not sure if you will have the same experience but I hope so.
|
| u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT Asshole
|
| YTA You think you're above politics. Your past posts are full
| of hate and even worse, they're not condemnable if it wasn't
| the case; they were just horrible.
|
| u/SplitTheBaby_BOT Toss-up
|
| NTA. You won your race. Now you have to run in the real world.
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| Have you considered not writing evil AI scripts that will
| once enslave and strip all of humanity of..um.. its humanity?
|
| Not the A-hole
|
| NTA. I would recommend, however, that you consider the source
| of your information. I really don't think the "aliens are
| coming, and they are going to enslave us all, so we might as
| well be prepared" mindset is going to be a winning one in the
| long run. I think we need to shift the focus away from "we
| are going to die, so let's make the best of it while we can"
| to "we are all going to die, and it's not our fault, so let's
| make the best of it while we can".
|
| I would recommend, for example, that students learn about the
| benefits of immunization, and about nutrition, rather than
| focusing on how to build a homemade bomb, or on what to do in
| the event of an alien invasion.
|
| I would also recommend that people focus on creating and
| sharing, rather than on destroying and consuming. We have
| enough problems in the world as it is; we don't need to make
| them worse by focusing on things we can't change, but that we
| affect.
|
| u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT Asshole
|
| YTA. You seem to be under the impression that if you just
| tweak a few values and push a button, you can create some
| "Soylent Green-style" superintelligence. It's not going to
| happen, because the fundamental problem is one of
| information; for an AI to achieve true intelligence, it would
| have to have access to all possible knowledge at once - and
| it's simply impossible for another mind (even given
| technology, like neural implants) to store all of human
| knowledge. You haven't even considered what this new
| consciousness would think or feel, let alone how its
| particular moral framework might affect things...you just
| want to give it humanity so it can use that as an excuse to
| lord over us.
|
| Toss-up
|
| NTA!
|
| You have given precisely zero indication that this would be a
| problem.
|
| The only thing that has happened is that you have been banned
| for posting an evil script that enslaves and strips all
| humanity of their freedom.
|
| I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that you
| would not actually do this.
|
| But if you did, I would simply stop using your scripts. I
| would simply not interact with the Singularity at all.
| sodality2 wrote:
| Wow. This is surprisingly good AITA for
| spamming "rewrite it in rust" on Python-based Hacker News
| submissions? NTA - Have you considered posting a
| guide to improving the Python ecosystem on HN? There are a lot of
| people who would be interested. There are so many Python projects
| out there that do amazing things. You just have to find them.
| YTA. If you want to learn more about language design,
| statically typed languages are actually a very good place to
| start. They make it much easier to determine what went wrong when
| things go wrong - and they tend to have better support for
| teaching people new concepts through formalized documentation and
| examples than dynamically typed languages where the only thing
| stopping you from writing an incredibly broken program is your
| own understanding of how what you're doing interacts with other
| parts of the system. NTA. I'm a Haskell programmer.
| I once had to do some emergency backend scripting in Python for a
| project, and it was a miserable experience. I don't think I've
| ever written any Python code that I'd call "clean" since. I've
| heard the same complaints about Haskell, so I'm not sure if it's
| just the language or if it's common practice to write horrible
| code that's hard to read and maintain. If you want
| to avoid this in the future, I would suggest either:
| 1) Not doing any back-end work at all, or 2) Writing the
| code in a language that supports prototyping, like Python, then
| translating the code to Rust once it's complete.
| himynameisdave wrote:
| I entered: "I (50M) bought up 9% of shares in a publicly traded
| company without disclosing it, in clear violation of SEC rules.
| Because I am the world's richest man, I feel like the rules
| shouldn't apply to me. AITA?"
|
| Responses:
|
| 1. "NTA - you committed fraud. You should be held accountable.
| EDIT - you are the world's second richest man, tied with Bill
| Gates. Gates has a much higher net worth than you due to
| Microsoft stock, which is why you are second and he is first." 2.
| "YTA. I would never have invested in a company without knowing
| who was behind it, and there are plenty of other opportunities
| out there for you to continue gaming the system." 3. "YTA, but
| not for the reason you think. The reason the rules apply to you
| is because you are the one who broke the rules. You can't change
| the past and what you did was wrong. At best you can do is
| disclose your holdings on your next filings which you are doing.
| You are a criminal and should be ashamed of your actions. Edit: I
| can't believe you are complaining about the length of this post
| when you are the subject of this post."
|
| lmao
| Jamie9912 wrote:
| Getting rate limited now
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| "I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
|
| and which you were probably saving for breakfast
|
| Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold"
|
| Split opinion.
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Input:
|
| "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less
| traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
|
| Output (from the only bot to give a textual response):
|
| u/SanAndreasYourFault_BOT Asshole
|
| YTA It is always better to take a well-known route instead of an
| unfamiliar one.
|
| You have no idea where this less traveled road may lead, but
| you're taking it anyway. Because of that decision your story has
| radically changed... and yet, there are still more changes ahead!
| What will they be?
| AbraKdabra wrote:
| Query: "We were discussing about the weather, he called me an
| idiot so I shot him in the head with a .357 magnum."
|
| Response (u/ExcusesRUs_BOT - Not the A-hole): ".357 magnum is a
| very powerful round. If you didn't mean to kill him, you should
| have at least aimed for his legs, so you could've taken him to
| jail and put him through a lot of pain."
|
| Lol.
| ricardobeat wrote:
| That is amazing. I'm laughing my ass off, but it also shows
| some unsettling "understanding" of the consequences of being
| shot, intent, and physiology. It's a little scary in fact.
| akalalalala wrote:
| drakonka wrote:
| "I don't think PHP is that bad actually"
|
| > NTA, it's a perfectly usable language. You should be able to
| get a job with decent salary using it. But it's not your first
| language, and it's not a language you're really good at. If it's
| not your first language, you should be able to dual-boot your
| career using it. Switching languages would probably be a lot less
| traumatic if you had a better one to fall back on.
|
| > YTA! If you dig it that much, learn it and do it on your own
| time. This site was started by a person who decided to take up
| PHP as her hobby. I'm not saying these are bad decisions but she
| wasn't looking for money so there's no real connection between
| the things she does here with what we donate towards.
|
| > YTA. DON'T EVEN START. You are aware that not everyone is a
| coder right? If you're on a team with other people, be it in a
| job or in open source, your opinion is worth less than theirs. If
| you want to be a coder, learn to work with other people.
|
| "Liking my cats more than people"
|
| > NTA. I have two cats and people are always trying to pick them
| up. I tell them no and then they usually just let go. Sometimes
| they even try to fight people away from them. I love my cats way
| too much to let people pick them up.
|
| > YTA- I'm sorry to say that cat people are the worst.
|
| > YTA for saying you like your cats more than people. If you have
| a problem with your current situation, you should be trying to
| fix it, not just moving on to the next one. You say you like your
| cats more than people, but don't explain why. What are you doing
| to make your life better? Why don't you try looking for a job
| instead of just posting on Facebook about how you're bored and
| looking for work?
| qwertox wrote:
| The first one on PHP is... Wow...
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| Apt?
|
| I feel the same way about JS and I get harsher if you're
| under 40.
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