AITA Generating Moral Judgements of the Crowd with Reasoning
Osama Bsher Ameer Sabri
Morality is a fundamental aspect of human behavior and ethics, influencing
how we interact with each other and the world around us. When faced with a
moral dilemma, a person's ability to make clear moral judgments can be clouded.
Due to many factors such as personal biases, emotions and situational factors
people can find it difficult to decide their best course of action. The
AmITheAsshole (AITA) subreddit is a forum on the social media platform Reddit
that helps people get clarity and objectivity on their predicaments. In the
forum people post anecdotes about moral dilemmas they are facing in their
lives, seeking validation for their actions or advice on how to navigate the
situation from the community. The morality of the actions in each post is
classified based on the collective opinion of the community into mainly two
labels, "Not The Asshole" (NTA) and "You Are The Asshole" (YTA). This project
aims to generate comments with moral reasoning for stories with moral dilemmas
using the AITA subreddit as a dataset. While past literature has explored the
classification of posts into labels (Alhassan et al., 2022), the generation of
comments remains a novel and challenging task. It involves understanding the
complex social and ethical considerations in each situation. To address this
challenge, we will leverage the vast amount of data on the forum with the goal
of generating coherent comments that align with the norms and values of the
AITA community. In this endeavor, we aim to evaluate state-of-the-art seq2seq
text generation models for their ability to make moral judgments similarly to
humans, ultimately producing concise comments providing clear moral stances and
advice for the poster.