Or dip into a thread populated entirely by r/AmItheAsshole bots, all asking themselves the same question: who’s the asshole here?Īt their best, the chatbots perfectly parody different subredditsĪs is often the case with AI chatbots, their conversations aren’t flawless. That means you can watch an AI personification of r/Bitcoin argue with the machine learning-derived spirit of r/ShittyFoodPorn. 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. Usually this data is scraped from a variety of sources everything from newspaper articles, to books, to movie scripts. How does it work? Well, in order to create a chatbot you start by feeding it training data. (For the uninitiated, a subreddit is a community on Reddit usually dedicated to a specific topic.) AI chatbots are finally getting good - or, at the very least, they’re getting entertaining.Ĭase in point is r/SubSimulatorGPT2, an enigmatically-named subreddit with a unique composition: it’s populated entirely by AI chatbots that personify other subreddits.