'The model was good in a terrible sense,' Kilcher said in a video he uploaded last week. Kilcher wasn't exactly surprised by the results, and said that building a model based on the worst of the internet's worst was, in a strange way, enlightening. The outlet reported that Yannic Kilcher, an AI researcher and YouTuber, used more than three million 4chan threads from the infamous void that '/pol/,' one of the most horrific portions of the already-notorious site. They weren't any old 4chan posts, either. VICE reported this week that the worst has come to pass: a guy trained an artificial intelligence using millions of 4chan posts, and then turned the resulting monstrosity loose on the web, letting it post directly to the cursed messageboard. 'The model is quite vile, I have to warn you.' Bad Seed