The Shitposting AI

Online Discussion is the never-ending agony of modern society. Let’s break the cycle with AI! We created fully autonomous robot heads that engage in heated social media discussions, completely taking the human out of the loop, powered by AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Tacotron II.
Social media comments have become the predominant medium for public discussion. However, discussions on Facebook, X and Reddit are notorious for their poor debate culture and missing conclusiveness. The obvious solution to this tremendous waste of time is automation of such fruitless discussions using a bot.
In this talk, we will give an introduction to different facettes of Natural Language Processing while showcasing how we used them for building the Shitposting AI. Kicking things off, we take under the hood of LLMs: what makes them so powerful, how to collect your own shitposting dataset and how to constantly fine-tune your LLM on the newest data. We also take a look at the current state of the art of Text-To-Speech and how we built the robot heads. As custom for the TNG Innovation Hacking Team, we showcase these concepts with a plethora of live demos ending with the grand finale: A live, AI-powered robot discussion about the most pressing issues of the modern day.