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Comment by scarface_74

3 months ago

> Not teaching me technical details of chemical weapons, or the etymology of racial slurs is indeed censorship.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67996bd1-6960-8010-9578-8a70d61992...

I asked it about the White racial slur that is the same as a snack and the one that I only heard from George Jefferson in the 80s and it gave an etymology for both. I said both words explicitly.

> It is astounding to me the hand-wringing over text generators generating text, as if automated text generation could somehow be harmful.

Do you remember how easily early chatbots could go off the rails based on simple prompts without any provacation? No business wants their LLM based service to do that.