Every website on the internet is now trying to stick AI-powered chatbots on their homepages. This trend extends to his 8kun as well. Far-right image bulletin board website It is known as a toxic cesspool of depraved and immoral content.
Jim Watkins created a website from the remains of 8chan (to summarize: started the internet by a web hosting provider in 2019), Posted about The site’s new AI chatbot debuted on X on Tuesday. Watkins said the new chatbot, simply called 8kun AI, is currently in active development and available to a limited number of users for testing. Mr. Watkins said:
“8kun AI is currently available for further beta testing. Please use it responsibly. Don’t break it. We are currently training the AI and it will take about a year. Your question is: It helps guide us towards improvement.”
In a subsequent post, Watkins claimed that the chatbot is “currently being trained based on content posted on 8kun and will take about a year to process.”
The 8kun page where the chatbot is displayed will display a message that only “proto members” of the platform can test the chatbot. For obvious reasons, I’m not a Proto member, so I wasn’t able to test how the app worked.
Watkins’ son, Ron Watkins Posted in X About chatbots: “We’re already getting better results than Grok, and it’s crazy. We need a little more knowledge about current events.”
No offense to Ron, but he’s clearly in the wrong.Meanwhile, Grok, Elon Musk’s edgelord chatbot, there are obvious weaknesses, and the 8kun chatbot’s answers often don’t come close to even the slightest semblance of consistency. The pages that automate interactions between chatbots and site users are repositories of dozens of unhinged regurgitations of text that sometimes resemble half-answers, but are otherwise completely unrelated. will be shot through.
For example, one user asked the chatbot, “Who would win in a fight, Howard the Duck or Batman?”
The answer from the chatbot is as follows:
Howard: I don’t think so. I think it’s only a matter of time before you can say, “Look, here we have to do this.” You have to do that. ” And you have to find a way to make it work. That’s what I’ve been doing for a long time and I’m very excited. It’s a very exciting time for me. I have a lot of friends who are in the UFC and they’re all fighting for the same cause, so I feel like I can do something really special for them. So I want to go out there and make sure we do what we can to bring out the best in each other. That’s the only way I know. You have to do this. You have to do that. ” And you have to find a way to make it work.
In another “answer,” the chatbot appears to claim that JFK was assassinated by a “CIA agent” named “Robert Kennedy Jr.” When another user asked about the dream, the chatbot spewed out what appeared to be random jargon related to the U.S. Code.
Watkins claims his chatbot is trained on 8kun content, but it appears to be trained on other texts as well. For example, several purported responses from the chatbot appear to be transcripts from episodes of the left-leaning news show Democracy Now, hosted by Amy Goodman. When a user asked the chatbot a question about Jeffrey Epstein, the response posted included the following text:
“Amy Goodman: Thank you for having me with you. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. We’ll be broadcasting from Washington, D.C., at 10:30 a.m. ET.”
In another post about X, Watkins writes claimed that The chatbot includes “several versions of the Bible in its reading list.”he added later: “I have no influence over what will be published in the future. It’s all about ‘reading’ 8kun and old public domain books to learn how to put things together.” It takes about a year of “learning” before it becomes useful. ”
In another post, Watkins said: “I will not be receiving any medical advice or guidance from AI for an extended period of time.” That’s certainly true, and it’s also true that if he doesn’t want to spend his day reading garbled stuff in the depths of the internet, he probably shouldn’t ask the 8kun AI.