Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult (opens in new tab)

It gave me

    1. Be Black
    2. Get Welfare
    3. Ask people to roast you.

Fully-automated racism.

Sometimes spurious usage of machine learning is "cute" and can be massaged by its implementer to come across as a valid instance of more art than science. Other times, it manages to let people who want to play with off-the-shelf libraries muddy the waters of what really comprises a quite difficult specialization. Other times still, it helps to reinforce some of the more atrocious biases of its source material and hold up another needless mirror to the uglier sides of humanity that no one is ignorant of.

Your project has managed to both. Well done. Have you heard about this really cool game called Cards Against Humanity?

Does this thing detect ethnicity? Because the roasts were on point.

I am of Indian origin, I got:

  "Uh yeah, let me get 20 on pump 3 please. Thanks goopta."
  "You look like you date rape goats."
  "Sorry you got in trouble for making that clock."

Automated racism! :o

"504 Gateway Time-out / nginx/1.10.1 (Ubuntu)" what kind of insult is that?

"You look like Kevin Smith fucked Mario and then you developed a heroin addiction. "

"Your face is rounder than the "O" in your sign "

"I thought we already roasted Saddam Hussein."

The image I uploaded:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Einstein...

Well it thinks Kirk Douglas [1] has a chin beard. The other insults eluded my understanding:

"well the good news is, youll totally be able to pay off all that medical debt with your art degree."

"You remind me of when I draw faces on my thumb."

"Oh fuck man, you have that disease that makes you think that a chin beard looks acceptable. Are you alright? How are your parents taking it?"

[1] https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE4MDAzNDEwNTA3MTA...

Here's how I suspect this thing works:

[1]: Crawl reddit.com/r/roastme

[2]: Map images to an array of "roast" comments

[3]: Compare input photo to all images from [2]

[4]: Return top three roasts from most similar image

Pretty neat, though! I've got to caution people on sharing this with coworkers as there's a very high risk of NSFW racial/ethnic/gender humor.

If you are able to reveal something of the architecture, is this just classifying the image based off other similar images from r/roastme, and then outputting a random insult that was deemed acceptable for that classification of image? Like there's no NLP happening here, correct?

Not responding for me right now. HN did it in, maybe?

Wont load for me

this web site it a piece of garbage. literally not a site.

Rude

(but accurate https://i.imgur.com/kCPdTTB.png)

Not bad.

https://i.imgur.com/qaK3x1B.png

How did you set up your back end here? (what's taking the photos and running the algorithms on them)

Is there something off the shelf you've used?

Great site by the way, I'm impressed.

This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I've been doing it with a few friends and we all love it.

Can you link to the reddit comments? It'd be interesting to see the photos they are roasting

Well i tried it with and without glasses.

It really homes in on glasses...

How do you know people upload pictures of themselves? What if this becomes a tool for bullies?