Friday Funnies: Chainsaw Massacre –
Bureaucracy thrives in darkness
Robert W Malone MD, MS Feb 21, 2025
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hIIuG-k53SI?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0
(True story) – From Grok:
I assume you’re referring to “Norman,” the AI developed by MIT researchers in 2018 to demonstrate the impact of biased data on artificial intelligence. Norman was trained exclusively on violent and gruesome image captions from a Reddit forum focused on disturbing content, deliberately avoiding the use of actual images due to ethical concerns. The goal was to show how the data fed into an AI can shape its behavior and outputs, rather than the algorithm itself being inherently flawed.
Named after Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, this AI was designed to perform image captioning—a process where it generates textual descriptions of images. After its training, researchers tested Norman with Rorschach inkblot images, comparing its responses to those of a “standard” AI trained on more neutral data. The results were striking: where a typical AI might see “a group of birds on a branch” or “a vase with flowers,” Norman interpreted the same inkblots as “a man electrocuted to death” or “a man shot dead in front of his screaming wife.” These grim outputs underscored the experiment’s point about data-driven bias.
Another gud video by Dominic.
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