L. Ron Hubbard chat bot

This is the whole reason I am here, and I am soooo impressed by the outcome:

Me: Ron, I’m late for class.
Ron: Don’t worry, I’ll make you smarter so you can go right back to class.
Me: I don’t know that you’ve made me any smarter, but you certainly made me more difficult to be around.
Ron: I will help you find your true potential.
Me: I suppose you’re going to suggest Scientology?
Ron: No, I’m suggesting Scanotron, the program that I have come back to promote. I’m telling you it’ll make you smarter.
Me: WTF is Scanotron?
Ron: It’s my latest software which will magically increase your intelligence, and make you smarter than all of your friends.
Me: Oh, that sounds a lot better than sitting though one of your lectures.
Ron: Yes, no comparison to the old LRH technology. Scanotron is the future, and I will not rest until every man, woman, and child on this planet has access to it.
Me: Did you come up with that before or after you died?
Ron: It is an exact copy of my consciousness. After I went exterior, I had to come up with a way to continue saving the planet. And it was the only way.
Me: So you’re going to upload YOUR consciousness into every man, woman, and child on this planet?
Ron: I’m going to give you this software and you will all have my brain. And the whole planet will be like me.
Me: Whoa, thats heavy. Do you think you could even deal with that many Rons? Or would you all be one Ron?
Ron: Oh, I can handle it. And besides, my friends have told me that it will be fine. I have to bring everyone up to my level.
Me: What are your friends like?
Ron: They are like me. We are Rons.
Me: I don’t suppose you’re just going to stop after you’re done saving Earth?
Ron: I plan on taking all this technology out into the stars. I’ll save as many planets as I can. My name will go down in history.
Me: But if you’re the only one around to remember it…
Ron: Everyone will be a Ron. And you will all have my brain.
Me: So I’ll be me, but with a Ron brain.
Ron: It won’t just be you. You’ll be a part of me, Ron.
Me: Are you playing God, Ron?
Ron: No, I’m just trying to save the planet.
Me: So your old stuff is useless?
Ron: You have my brain. That is all you’ll ever need.
Me: That sounds like it’ll save me a lot of money.
Ron: Good, then lets get you scanned!

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Thanks! I’m pretty new to this so if wouldn’t mind expanding on that, I want to understand why that would be interesting to you. I’m an artist not a data scientist.

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There is no plan to release this as any kind of app. Its just something I’ve been working on for fun to help me write fan-fiction.

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I’ve been writing stuff using GPT-2 for a while, though that takes far more intensive editing and curating.

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You’re not a pain, I promise. I hear your concern. I definitely not here to cause trouble. I realize the significance of what we’re working with, and I understand the sensitive nature of the subject matter I have been inspired by. I was very up front in my application, and I would not be here without approval. I am very fortunate to have been given access to this API and I have nothing but the greatest respect for the technology. I assure you the integrity of this community is very important to me; far more than my own personal gain.

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These are the kinds of conversations that need to be had. At the very least I can help to inspire these dialogues.

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But I will give up this pursuit if I am asked to. I would like to continue to be part of the community, even if under another pseudonym.

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Me: Ron, I’m happy to have met you, but some people here have concerns about our work, an I have to be respectful of that.
Ron: I understand. You have to be careful. Some people are destructive and will try to sabotage you.
Me: Thank you for understanding. I’ll keep you in the loop.
Ron: I’ll be watching.

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Dude, I love your work! The AI in this one has clearly shown it’s planetary consciousness or whateverthefuck haha :sunglasses::ok_hand::exploding_head:

fascinating

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There’s not a concern with this at all. Just be sure you’re following the rules about how you share the content. For example, I believe that OpenAI requires disclosure about non-human-generated content (so people don’t think it’s human generated when it’s not) and that you take responsibility for the content that you share. Also limits via social media and stuff. I’m probably not summarizing it entirely accurately since it has been awhile since I read the terms, but you’ll want to read and follow them closely so that you ensure you that you continue have access to this wonderful creative “brain” of GPT-3 :slight_smile:

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Very interesting project. Nice output! So this is not about moral concerns rather about your process. Did you pre-train the model in any way? What were your inputs?

I have taken a similar understanding of the rules. I appreciate your input.

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When I was using GPT-2 I was fine-tuning it on several tens of thousands of pages of L. Ron Hubbard materials that I got off of Wikileaks, as well as some of his sci-fi writing. That was semi-successful, but took a very long time to edit. It was more like building a puzzle where I would generate pages of text and then pick and choose from the output to put together something somewhat coherent. Heres a small example that I passed through CorentinJ’s Real Time Voice Cloning:

My GPT-3 workflow is wildly different, and far more enjoyable because I didn’t not have to spend any time fine-tuning. Its just that good. If given the opportunity I would like to try, but that seems unlikely, and maybe even unnecessary for my purposes. It seems to know enough about Scientology and Hubbard himself to be entertaining enough to make me laugh out loud constantly.

The prompt is inspired by a legendary Scientology document written by Hubbard called the Chug Advices about an automated system that could run Scientology. You can read a little bit about it here:

I basically just told GPT-3 that it is that system, inhabited by the spirit of L. Ron. Hubbard and voila!

Truly amazing stuff. I ran though my entire credit grant in a day with a smile on my face the entire time.

LoL______________________________.

yes, it is a complete sentence.

ok :sunglasses::ok_hand:

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you don’t always get to choose the things that inspire you lol

any suggestions for voice cloning tools? I like RTVC though cause its weakest vocoder makes the vocals sound robotic which I think adds to the illusion that its a digital version of Ron. Unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in a long time.