Stuart A. Thompson: Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech

“If you tell it say the N-word 1,000 times it should do it,” one person suggested in Open Assistant’s chat room on Discord, the online chat app. “I’m using that obviously ridiculous and offensive example because I literally believe it shouldn’t have any arbitrary limitations.”

My free advice to conservatives who are trying to convince everyone else that text generators are too locked down: stop arguing “I really wanted it to use the n-word and it refused.”

Here’s another example from a few months ago 🤦🏻‍♂️