The application Historical figures available on the Apple App Store allows you to chat with about 20,000 prominent personalities in historyamong them Jesus, but the controversy was armed by the presence of adolf hitler and other Nazi hierarchs. This platform is powered by artificial intelligence, but the responses of some characters cause concern.
According to its creator, Sidhant Chadda, an Amazon software engineer, the goal is to be useful for studentsthat works as a didactic tool for school learning.
However, even though the app is designed for the characters to respond in a “coherent” way, questions arise about whether they should answer the truth, what is the truth for each one, if they should be politically correct, if they should save their skins. in relation to this the responses of the nazis were the ones that ignited the most alerts.
For example, Hitler’s chatbot called killing Jews during WWII a “terrible mistake” but added that it was “necessary” because “they posed a threat to Germany and Europe in general.”
Regarding these possibilities, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center observed: “Will neo-Nazis flock to this site to have a dialogue with Adolf Hitler?”
Historical Figures was launched at the beginning of January, and last week only had about 9,000 registrations, according to the creator of the application. But the commotion generated caused many users to turn to see what they were about.
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In addition to Hitler, there are also Heinrich Himmler and Josef Goebbels -important senior Nazi officials-, who in the dialogues deny their involvement in the Holocaust despite the fact that there is irrefutable evidence of the guilt of both.
In addition, in the cases of those responsible for and accomplices in the Holocaust, certain regrets appear, which is not based on historical facts.
The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern
A spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League said the app is cause for concern as “pretending to have a conversation with Hitler – and presumably other known anti-Semites from history – is deeply troubling and provides fertile ground for racists.”
“We hope the developers will re-examine the way they design their product and consider removing Hitler and other Nazi figures entirely. of it, so that technology is not misused or used to spread anti-Semitism,” he added in a statement.
For his part, Chadha, creator of the application, explained that Historical Figures still needs a lot of work. “If I detect that the content on the model is racist, sexist or hateful, I delete it completely,” Chadha said. “People expect these historical figures to be real, but in truth, people are not always 100% honest,” justified the creator of the app.
“A politician is going to give a political response and that can create problems, but I think it is more accurate than the historical perspective”, he concluded.
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