Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years--so we're diving into the Dear Prudence archives to share classic letters with our readers.Submit your own questions to Prudie here. I work for an indie video game studio that makes games aimed at young adults. Our company values itself on being progressive, especially when it comes to content having to do with gender and inclusivity. I generally love my job--there's a lot of writing involved, and everyone seems on board with the message of tolerance and empowerment that I'm trying to communicate through our stories. But at lunch recently, my boss was telling me about his young daughter's troubles with making friends at school.

AI expert Marva Bailer explains how, even though there are currently laws in place, the average person has more access than ever to create deepfakes of celebrities. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was mistaken for another Hollywood star, but not by a fan -- by a machine. The "Veep" star was the entertainment honoree at the WSJ. Magazine 2023 Innovator Awards earlier this month and revealed she used AI chatbot ChatGPT to help write her speech for the event. "As an entertainment innovator, I am very, very busy innovating," Louis-Dreyfus began, in a clip shared by the outlet on their TikTok.

Stealing someone else's joke is one of the highest crimes in comedy. With new AI tools like ChatGPT, some comedians are now worried about getting ripped off. The AI-generated "Seinfeld" parody that rose to fame online appears to have broken, then returned with a focus on existential dread and a generally bleak tone. "The show has broken out of the loop and is now'working' again but it feels darker," 404 Media reporter Jason Koebler posted on X. "Characters are convulsing, water is flowing upwards out of the sink instead of down, they move in creepy ways, clipping through each other and furniture." The "Seinfeld" parody, "Nothing, Forever," started streaming non-stop online in December 2022 and has over 170,000 followers.

This past November, soon after OpenAI released ChatGPT, a software developer named Thomas Ptacek asked it to provide instructions for removing a peanut-butter sandwich from a VCR, written in the style of the King James Bible. ChatGPT rose to the occasion, generating six pitch-perfect paragraphs: "And he cried out to the Lord, saying, 'Oh Lord, how can I remove this sandwich from my VCR, for it is stuck fast and will not budge?' " Ptacek posted a screenshot of the exchange on Twitter. "I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this," he concluded. The nearly eighty thousand Twitter users who liked his interaction seemed to agree. A few days later, OpenAI announced that more than a million people had signed up to experiment with ChatGPT.

Artificial intelligence's take on a classic sitcom is more than a load of "yada yada yada." "Nothing, Forever" is an AI-generated, "Seinfeld" like show on streaming platform Twitch that's set to never stop broadcasting. The 24/7 show, which has been streaming since December, has grown in popularity over the past week as thousands have tuned in to watch the adventures of animated characters Larry Feinberg, Fred Kastopolous, Yvonne Torres and Zoltan Kalker. As of Saturday morning, "Nothing, Forever" had over 131,000 Twitch followers. The show plays out in a similar fashion to the TV classic: It includes stand-up sequences, laugh tracks and conversations among AI friends similar to Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer inside of an apartment.

David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest is about marijuana addiction and a spate of deaths caused by a looped video so mesmerizing viewers do not unglue themselves to eat or drink. The author never says what's in the video, but it could've easily been an AI-generated parody of Seinfeld. On December 14, Skyler Hartle, a senior project manager at Microsoft, and Brian Habersberger, a photovoltaic encapsulant materials scientist at Dow Chemical, launched an art project on Twitch. They had a company draw a Minecraft-y version of the Seinfeld sets, created characters with automaton-edged voices, and gave the AI text-generator GPT-3 a broad prompt: characters in a room together having a humorous conversation. Because Seinfeld claimed to be about nothing, and because the AI could generate new material 24 hours a day, they called it Nothing, Forever.

Since the hit sitcom Seinfeld went off the air in 1998 after nine seasons, the show's devoted followers have long mused about an alternate reality: What if the original "show about nothing" had never ended? Now they've gotten what they wished for--well, sort of. In mid-December, a never-ending AI-generated reboot, aptly named Nothing, Forever, launched on the streaming platform Twitch. You could, anyway, until earlier this week, when forever abruptly ended--or was at least briefly interrupted, and in just about the most fitting way imaginable: by the AI scriptwriter devolving into bigotry. Nothing, Forever is powered by Davinci, the newest publicly available version of OpenAI's GPT-3 language model--a close relative of ChatGPT--and although that technology is impressive, the show, in most respects, is not.

Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith has the latest on ChatGPT on'Special Report.' "Nothing Forever," the popular AI-generated "Seinfeld" parody, was recently banned from streaming on Twitch according to the show's creators on Sunday. The show originally streamed 24/7 on Twitch since mid-December, following four characters named Larry, Fred, Yvonne and Kakler in reference to the characters Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer from the popular 90s comedy "Seinfeld." On the show's Discord, one of the creators, Xander, reportedly explained the situation regarding its recent suspension. Here's the latest: we received a 14-day suspension due to what Larry Feinberg said tonight during a club bit," Xander reportedly said. "We've appealed the ban, and we'll let you know as we know more on what Twitch decides.

Twitch has banned "Nothing, Forever," the AI-generated Seinfeld stream, for at least 14 days following a transphobic and homophobic outburst. It's the latest example of "hate in, hate out" when AI chatbots are trained on offensive content without adequate moderation. Like Seinfeld, "Nothing, Forever" rotates between standup bits and scenes in the comedian's apartment (he's called "Larry Feinberg" in the AI version). As first reported by Vice, during one of the recent AI-scripted standup acts, the Seinfeld counterpart suggested that being transgender is a mental illness. In what almost seemed like an awareness of the material's offensiveness, the AI comedian quickly added, "But no one is laughing, so I'm going to stop. Although Twitch hasn't confirmed that the "joke" was the reason for the ban, the stream was removed soon after the problematic segment aired. The program's creators blame the hurtful rant on a model change that inadvertently left the stream without moderation tools. "Earlier tonight, we started having an outage using OpenAI's GPT-3 Davinci model, which caused the show to exhibit errant behaviors (you may have seen empty rooms cycling through)," a staff member wrote on Discord. "OpenAI has a less sophisticated model, Curie, that was the predecessor to Davinci.

A never-ending spoof of Seinfeld generated by AI has attracted nearly 171,000 followers on Twitch. The stream, which first aired on December 14, has been playing non-stop ever since and is almost entirely generated by algorithms. It's titled Nothing, Forever, a reference to the '90s sitcom being the so-called "show about nothing." Created by Skyler Hartle and Brian Habersberger, the show uses a combination of machine learning, generative algorithms and cloud services to create a Seinfeld parody, using OpenAI's GPT-3 language model. Nothing, Forever features animated versions of the main Seinfeld cast, including Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer, but with dialogue that often doesn't make sense, characters who wander off aimlessly, and a badly-timed laugh track. Speaking about the project to Vice, Hartle said: "The actual impetus for this was it originally started its life as this weird, very, off-center kind of nonsensical, surreal art project.