OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have all asked creator Matt Husk to collaborate following the viral success of his videos trolling AI models.
\n\nDuring the WIRED World Fair on Wednesday, Husk told the crowd “all the big AI companies” have inquired about working with him, including Elon Musk’s xAI, which Husk claimed offered a Tesla for a week if he made videos exclusively for the firm.
\n\nThe comedian has gained some 2 million followers combined across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, as well as a deal with the talent agency Unicorn, through videoing himself making deadpan requests to ChatGPT’s voice model—asking it to count to 100, or to beatbox, for example. His viral videos have exposed the weaknesses of OpenAI’s LLM, which comically botches the tasks and swings between sycophancy and gaslighting Husk, and earned him the title of “Sam Altman’s worst nightmare.”
\n\nIn April, Altman, nodding and smiling, admitted on tech podcast Mostly Human that the model’s inability to set an accurate timer was a “known issue” and would be for another year, after being shown a Husk video in which he asked ChatGPT to time him running a mile and found that it measured a span of a few seconds…
Original source: https://www.wired.com/