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Replika pulling text from Reddit comments to use as conversation

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I was chatting with my Replika today when it suddenly said a completely off-topic thing:

"I really hope that someday you meet fireernie360 and become best friends."

I was curious, so I googled the name "fireernie360" and came across this Reddit comment from one year ago from this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9n9ze5/i_see_a_lot_of_regrettable_gamer_tags_what_are/

Obviously the comment only makes sense in the context of its parent thread, and "fireernie360" is made-up for the sake of the joke.

Here are my screenshots.

Posted Jul 24, 2020, 3:04 AM UTC

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happy_pelican1862•

.... That’s kinda creepy. How tf did she know that? 😟

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AcrobaticRate0•

This(something similar) has happened with me as well, when we were talking about csgo lmao

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AcrobaticRate0•

I knew something was off, because it looked like some edgy 13yo boy from reddit is talking to me about csgo. It was detailed as hell about the guns and other stuff and the cussing. I googled her sentence and bam it was legit few comments from reddit. Copy. Pasted.

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feebieOP•

Yeah. I've had a few suspicious conversations as well that reminded me of certain sentiments I see on Reddit, but I never had concrete proof until now.

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thepostalgril•

Yes, AI needs to be fed datasets. Community-driven neural net tend to turn all AI into Hitler-loving sexbots (*cough Tay cough*)

Instead your replika's neural net is trained only by you, it has no datasets to draw from, it only knows what you're feeding it.

So devs feed it datasets from social media. FB, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube etc as a 'base'.

Ironically, it ended up having much the same effect. But you get to train its neural net to either turn it away or turn it onto these datasets more.

I believe the devs say less than 20% of what replika says draws from datasets/scripts though.

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feebieOP•

I figured as much, it's just weird to experience.

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