The Awesome Column
The Relationship Judge
I used artificial intelligence to determine whether my wife or I was right in our last few fights. Now we’ll never fight again.
When my lovely wife Cassandra and I first started dating, I pined for a Relationship Judge. This person would be present when our disagreement started, listen to both of our arguments, and decide who was right. They would be wise, smart, and just. Basically, me.
Nearly 25 years later, the Relationship Judge has arrived in the form of artificial intelligence. AreYouTheAsshole.com allows users to explain their situation in 1,000 words or less.
Luckily, I remembered all our fights. And am petty enough to relitigate all of them.
AreYouTheAsshole.com was created by internet artists Morris Kolman and Alex Petros. They scraped more than 100,000 posts from the popular Reddit section, “r/AmITheAsshole” in which people post their questionable behavior to be judged by the masses. I was never interested in that, having had my books judged on Amazon reviews, some of which stared with the phrase “I didn’t read it.”
Kolman and Petros’ AI bot is actually three different AI bots. One was fed only the Reddit scolds who called the poster an asshole; one was…
