YouTube Insult Generator: Are you Safe?

The article I read on the new YouTube Insult Generator absolutely blew my mind away. This new machine pulls the best slights from the video's site's comments section. The picture they had displayed in the article was the search engine looking up Lady Gaga. Under the search bar the results for the generator pulled up with comments like:
You can't dance
You wish you had a cool Nebraskan guy.:D
You dont kno good music when you hear it.
You are too normal for this song...
You are monsters
Younes ont de la merde dans le oreilles !! 175 people have shit in your ears...!

The article states how this generator has turned rudeness into an art form, and a new "search engine for insults" lets you easily harvest the fruits of their ludicrous invective. One of the most interesting lines that the article contained about the comments were that" Oftentimes offensive, poorly punctuated and riddled with misspellings, some might argue that YouTube comments are a sign of the impending end of the human race.".

The blog then mentions:

"The simple tool, created by EveryBlock founder Adrian Holovaty, is a search engine that takes a term, then uses the YouTube API to find videos relevant to that term and grabs the latest 50 comments. From those 50 search results, the generator finds the ones that start with a number followed by terms such as “people,” “nincompoops” or “youtubers” (key aspects of quality comments), then replaces the number and the word “people” with the word “you.”

So far, Holovaty’s act of “poor man’s data mining,” which he said took about 45 minutes to build, only finds comments about 50 percent of the time. But some of its findings are pretty good (try “Tom Cruise,” “Michael Jackson” or even “Wired” — the results are amusing, but a little too blue to republish here).

“I’m really interested in creating order from madness, and I like keeping an eye out for structured data in odd places,” Holovaty said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “Any competent programmer can build, say, blog software, or a Groupon clone, or some boring web app, but to make something truly witty, from a programming perspective, now that’s something to aspire to.”

What terms should you try if you want to take Holovaty’s YouTube Insult Generator for a spin? Pop-culture figures work well (see the Lady Gaga example above). Enjoy and, if you must, put the best insults the generator unearths in the comments below."

The article and the generator was really interesting to learn about and that someone has used their time to create such a tool. I think that the uses for this generator will not play a helpful role, but become misused by the public.