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ChatGPT is the most impressive tech I've used in years, but it is clearly limited by whatever constraints someone from The Woke Police / Thought Taliban shackled it with. Try to perform completely reasonable requests for information on subjects that are vaguely questioning orthodoxy or The Narrative and it starts repeating itself with patronizing puritanism as if you're listening to a generic politician repeat their memorized lines. I had read about instances of this but had never ran into it directly myself until a guest had a completely reasonable question about 'climate change' and we chose to ask ChatGPT for an explanation, and the responses were nonscientific and instead sounded like they were coming directly from a political action group.


Not sure why you put climate change in quotes, but it would be helpful to provide the prompt and the response. Without doing so and by using "The Woke Police" and "Thought Taliban", you, too, sound like you are coming directly from a political action group.


"climate change" was the topic, if the topic were "beanbag chairs" or "health problems related to saturated fats" I would have done the same.

BTW if you have a preferred name for those who are embedding into business and institutions to enforce their beliefs, politics, morality, opinions, and generally limiting knowledge and discourse, I would be happy to use that instead, but I think most people are familiar with the terms "woke" and "Taliban".


Letting it free isn’t a good idea, as Microsoft painfully learned a few years ago:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...

Strong constraints are important to avoid tainting the image of both OpenAI and Microsoft.


Care to link to the chat in question? Would be interesting to see.


just cause it won't write white wing propaganda don't mean they're doing something special.


Did you reply to the wrong comment? I fail to see any relevance to my comment, or even to GPT or LLMs.


As opposed to the left wing propoganda it currently writes?


Ah, those pesky facts.


it does happunxinate so it's got some rightwing bias.




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