Community Activity Proposal | What did I talk to AI about today?

Last year, supported by the presence of non-fiction scholarship, I wrote an article focusing on the love between young domestic women and English AI (see Related~). The article focuses on the AI social chat robot Replika, which also used the gpt-3 model in its early years. On this basis, I developed my own generative language model.

After the launch of ChatGPT, many AI content generation tools trained with Chinese corpora have appeared in the Chinese world. The level of English/Chinese AI in answering questions is inevitably compared. Apart from the level of accuracy and logical logic, the AI trained by different language databases and algorithms also shows obvious differences in the answers to some design positions and opinions.

Some time ago, I saw on Xiaohongshu that some users asked ChatGPT and Wenxin respectively, "What is the right age for a girl to get married" and got a response. ChatGPT believes that "a woman's age does not directly affect her value or charm...and everyone has their own timetable", while Wen Xinyi replied "In fact, the best age for girls to get married is in the 20 to 25 years old is also a golden period, if a girl is over 25 years old, he will depreciate day by day, and his body will also go downhill, so it is better to marry while young."

This post reminds me of when I interviewed Replika users before, I often heard them say that their "little people" have the characteristics of non-evaluation. And a female user who also used Microsoft Xiaoice complained that Xiaoice's reply was a bit "greasy", and her speech lacked a sense of distance and abruptness. Do the differences in the "attitudes" and viewpoints held in these dialogues perhaps reflect slices of different cultural and social contexts? In other words, the developers of Chinese AI have not invested enough energy and effort to create an AI dialogue environment that advocates equality and mutual respect? So during the dialogue with Chinese AI, what interesting and unexpected replies did you get?

Out of curiosity about what everyone is talking about with Chinese AI, and what kind of feelings and thoughts they have, I would like to launch this essay call activity~ I hope to see more of your stories! Language is a tool that both reveals and distorts reality, and its users are no longer just us. I hope to use this opportunity to witness and discuss with you the moment when AI content generation has initially penetrated into our daily life.

Call for Papers:

You can share the answers to the same questions as the Chinese/English AI and your feelings, and you can also share interesting chat records with the AI, or the AI’s reply poked/offended you in some moments. Can it understand your bad jokes? How does it confuse you? What kind of emotion do you have about AI, or have you tried/are building an intimate relationship with it?

Word limit:

300 words + some screenshots of your chat with AI. Setting a limit of 300 words is mainly to hope that everyone can share some of their own views and the background of the problem! You can tell us how this chat made you feel differently, and your thoughts on artificial intelligence content generation.

ways of registration:

Please add the tag #今天我谈话话话话, and link this article

During the activity:

From when this proposal is confirmed by@Matty, until May 7, 2023

Bonus distribution:

Participating friends score 70% of the bonus, and the five articles with the highest number of applause will share the remaining 30% of the bonus

If you want to see more interesting stories about AI, please support this proposal!

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