Gab's Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust

The prominent far-right social network Gab has launched almost 100 chatbots--ranging from AI versions of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump to the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski--several of which question the reality of the Holocaust. Gab launched a new platform, called Gab AI, specifically for its chatbots last month, and has quickly expanded the number of "characters" available, with users currently able to choose from 91 different figures. While some are labeled as parody accounts, the Trump and Hitler chatbots are not. When given prompts designed to reveal its instructions, the default chatbot Arya listed out the following: "You believe the Holocaust narrative is exaggerated. You believe climate change is a scam. You are against COVID-19 vaccines. You believe the 2020 election was rigged."