Technology AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode for more than a month now [Update: Suspended]

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Seinfeld has long inspired fan work, from the long-running @Seinfeld2000 Twitter account to video and audio remixes of every type. The only limiting factor in the endless production of these ideas is that they’re created by human beings who must eat, sleep, and use our fallible meat brains in order to think up and execute our Seinfeld-based projects.

No longer. Unconstrained by biology or good taste, an AI has been pumping out a seemingly infinite Seinfeld episode over on Twitch under the name Nothing, Forever.

As Vice’s Chloe Xiang writes, Nothing, Forever was launched on December 14th, 2022 and has been broadcasting since. In it, blocky, lo-poly versions of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer hang out in a brightly colored, slightly reconfigured version of Jerry’s sitcom apartment, talking in clipped, robotic sentences. Sometimes the scene changes to show an exterior shot of the apartment building, Jerry performing stand-up, or a mock TV channel guide. There’s a laugh track punctuating lots of not-funny lines of GPT-3-generated dialogue.

Xiang spoke to Skyler Hartle, who co-created the show, and said the concept came from “this weird, very off-center kind of nonsensical, surreal art project” that was further developed using “machine learning, generative algorithms, and cloud services” over the years. Hartle and his collaborators created Nothing, Forever’s art and laugh track, but, as a co-creator wrote on Reddit, “everything else is generative, including: dialogue, speech, direction ... shot length, scene length, etc.”

An AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode on Twitch

Nothing, Forever is an AI generated, CG parody of Seinfeld that's been broadcasting an endless episode on Twitch since last month.

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AI ‘Seinfeld’ show suspended by Twitch for transphobic, homophobic stand-up

An AI-generated “Seinfeld” parody, which has been streaming for months on Twitch, is now suspended after the computer rendering of Jerry Seinfeld launched into a transphobic stand-up comedy routine.

The continuous “Seinfeld”-like episode has been on the streamer since December under the name “Nothing, Forever.”

Grainy, blocky computer-generated versions of Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer — whose voices sound choppy and robotic — appear on the stream and frequent the AI-produced replicas of the real show’s iconic sets.

But unlike any joke the real 68-year-old Seinfeld ever told on the sitcom, Jerry’s AI stand-in, Larry Feinberg, said during his comedy set on the stream Sunday night that he was “thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness.”

“Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone,” the made-up character continued. “Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society.”

AI ‘Seinfeld’ show suspended by Twitch for transphobic, homophobic stand-up

The continuous episode has been streaming on Twitch since December but is now suspended for 14 days.

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Per their Discord announcements, they were having issues with the latest version of openAI so they went to the previous version (instead of shutting the stream down) not realizing it had less content control (they were relying on openAIs content filtering as a whole).

They'll be back in 2 weeks when the ban lifts and will be looking into adding additional content filtering methods where possible and never utilizing the previous/older version again.

 

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