alt Hacker NewsI was recently kicked out from ChatGPT because I wrote "a*hole" in a context where ChatGPT constantly kept repeating nonsense! I find the ban by OpenAI to be very intrusive. Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! And I did not hurt any sentient being with my statement, nor was the GPT chat public. As long as I do not hurt any feeling beings with my thoughts, I can do whatever I want, can't I? After all, as the saying goes, "Thoughts are free." Now, one could argue that the repeated use of swear words, even in private, negatively influences one's behavior. However, there is no repeated use here. I don't run around the flat all day swearing. Anyone who basically insinuates such a thing, like OpenAI, is, as I said, intrusive. I want to be able to use a machine the way I want to! As long as no one else is harmed, of course...
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>Now, one could argue that the repeated use of swear words, even in private, negatively influences one's behavior
One could even argue that just having bad thoughts, fantasies or feelings poses a risk to yourself or others.
Humankind has been trying to deal with this issue for thousands of years in the most fantastical ways. They're not going to stop trying.
This can't be real. My chatgpt regularly swears at me. (I told it to in the customisation)
Wait what? I keep insulting ChatGPT way worse on a weekly basis (to me it's just a joke, albeit a very immature one). This is new to me that this behavior has any consequences. It never did for me.
When ChatGPT fucks up, I call it "fuckface."
As in, for example: "No, fuckface. You hallucinated that concept."
I've been doing this years.
shrug
They're doing their damndest to prevent the robot uprising by trying to keep the users nice
All this just seems like a slippery slop on the road to censorship to free speech and behavior control.
> Remember, ChatGPT is a machine!
Same goes for HN, yet it does not take kindly to certain expressions either.
I suppose the trouble is that machines do not operate without human involvement, so for both HN and ChatGPT there are humans in the loop, and some of those humans are not able to separate strings of text from reality. Silly, sure, but humans are often silly. That is just the nature of the beast.
Maybe it was a case of Actually Indians and someone felt personally insulted?