Twitch suspended a GPT-powered AI comedy show trained on 'Seinfeld' episodes after it made transphobic comments

• An AI-powered comedy shoe trained by "Seinfeld" episodes was suspended from Twitch.
• The stream, called "Nothing, Forever," had made transphobic comments shortly before the suspension.

An AI-powered comedy stream on the live-streaming platform Twitch was suspended after making transphobic comments.

The always-streaming AI show, called "Nothing, Forever," streamed on Twitch and was trained on episodes of "Seinfeld, essentially meaning it was fed data through an algorithm and taught how to interpret the classic sitcom.

The AI standup comic, called Larry Feinberg, was modeled after the show's star, Jerry Seinfeld, and its dialogue is powered by OpenAI's GPT-3 Davinci Model.

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On Monday, a notice on the channel said it was "temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service."

The notice doesn't specify the reason for the suspension, but it came soon after Sunday night's stream included transphobic and anti-LGBTQ+ comments, according to Vice.

Twitch did not immediately respond to Insider's request for clarification on the reason for the suspension.

One of the "Nothing, Forever" creators, called Xander, said on Discord that the suspension is for 14 days, according to Vice.

"We've appealed the ban, and we'll let you know as we know more on what Twitch decides," Xander said. "Regardless of the outcome of the appeal, we'll be back and will spend the time working to ensure to the best of our abilities that nothing like that happens again."

Since launching in December, the stream had gone viral on Twitch. On Friday, it had over 15,000 concurrent viewers, according to Polygon.

"We wanted to see if it was possible to build a new form of media — a generative show — with a lot of the tools and methods that were starting to take off, like machine learning," Skyler Hartle, a member of the group that created the show told Polygon. "We wanted to create a sorta surreal, eerie, David Lynch-esque show that could run forever as more of an art experiment than anything else."