![]() ![]() Poole established 4chan on October 1, 2003, using translated source code from 2chan, and sought to combine the anime culture on 2chan with the community on Something Awful. In 2009, The Washington Post reported that Poole had attended Virginia Commonwealth University for a few semesters before dropping out, and that he was living with his mother while trying to figure out how to monetize 4chan. In a MIT Technology Review piece entitled "Radical Opacity", Poole was described as being the antithesis of Mark Zuckerberg while Zuckerberg is outspoken towards his advocacy for a transparent Internet, Poole advocates for a more opaque Internet. Poole believes in anonymity on the Internet, and spoke at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California, about the value of the concept. Several journalists noted that the name "Christopher Poole" could be a pseudonym itself, including Lev Grossman of Time and Monica Hesse of The Washington Post. Until 2008, when his name was revealed in The Wall Street Journal, Poole took great lengths to protect his identity, going under the pseudonym of Robert in real life and as moot online. As a teenager, he was a member of the Something Awful forum, and frequented the anonymous Japanese textboard 2channel and its offshoot 2chan. Poole was born in 1988 and grew up in New York City. ![]() Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to work on the Google+ social network, and left the company in 2021. He also founded the online community Canvas, active from 2011 to 2014. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015. 1988 ), also known online as moot, is an American internet entrepreneur and developer. Virginia Commonwealth University (no degree)įounder and former head administrator of 4chanĬhristopher Poole (born c. "It's the same as if you were to go to the website directly and interact with users.New York City, New York, United States "The model is quite vile, I have to warn you," Klicher said in his 20-minute explainer. It's so bad that Kilcher gave a content warning before going on to explain why his AI is actually "more truthful" than other neural networks. "It perfectly encapsulated the mix of offensiveness, nihilism, trolling, and deep distrust of any information whatsoever that permeates most posts on /pol.” World's WorstĮven though it was eventually outed as a bot posting from the island nation of Seychelles - known, unrelatedly, for its climate change mitigation efforts - the posts got lots of attention and interaction beforehand.Ĥchan, of course, is the sort of like the armpit of the internet - anything goes as long as it's technically legal. "The model was good in a terrible sense," Kilcher said in a video he uploaded last week. Kilcher wasn't exactly surprised by the results, and said that building a model based on the worst of the internet's worst was, in a strange way, enlightening. The outlet reported that Yannic Kilcher, an AI researcher and YouTuber, used more than three million 4chan threads from the infamous void that "/pol/," one of the most horrific portions of the already-notorious site. They weren't any old 4chan posts, either. VICE reported this week that the worst has come to pass: a guy trained an artificial intelligence using millions of 4chan posts, and then turned the resulting monstrosity loose on the web, letting it post directly to the cursed messageboard. "The model is quite vile, I have to warn you." Bad Seed ![]()
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