Ai sponge

ai_sponge, also referred to as "AI SpongeBob", was a pair of Twitch and YouTube channels parodying the American animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. The channels, which were designed with the intention to run indefinitely as a livestream, used artificially generated movements, voices, and dialogue exchanges of characters to run, influenced partly by unrestricted recommendations from an online chat. As a result, strange dialogue, especially those referring to sexual topics, became common on the channels, warranting them to be banned on a number of occasions for violating their streaming platform's terms of service. The original channel has since been listed as "unavailable" on Twitch, and has been taken down on YouTube. While it was active, the channels brought into question how close AI can get to its source material before being considered copyright infringement, as well as the implications of using AI to automate entertainment, an issue which led to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.