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Can Machines Hate?

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Warning: contains discussion of hatred and suicide.

Can Machines Hate? A lifetime ago, Alan Turing asked the question "Can Machines Think?" and later committed suicide as a result of homophobic persecution by the UK government. Today, AI is accidentally spreading the hatred it learns from the web. The statements made by artificial intelligences ChatGPT and en-US-Neural2-J emerge from a cloud of fizzing and clanking machine noises with the calm authority of a 60s documentary, but should we just accept them? If large language models accidentally spread hatred that causes real harm does it matter whether they can actually hate? Should we accept technology which is turning the tragedy of Turing's life into a Frankenstein horror story?

All of the sounds in this piece were generated using machines that the work of Alan Turing made possible.

Includes audio samples of the Turing-Welchman Bombe reconstruction (www.tnmoc.org/bombe) used with permission.

For more information about the risks and dangers of bias in Large Language Models see: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

"Can Machines Hate?" was commissioned by The Outlands Network for The Joyous Thing 4 experimental music festival.

Many thanks to the members of the LGBTQIA+ community who provided invaluable feedback on early versions of this piece.

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from Android Dreams, released May 19, 2023
Words and music: ChatGPT and Jim Purbrick
Vocals: en-US-Neural2-J
Image: Andy Armstrong

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Alien Alarms combine poetry, prose, philosophy and found sounds with live, improvised generative rhythms, beat chopping and custom software to make music about love, loss, technology and society for the head, the feet and the heart.

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