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funnily enough I have a friend who've been obsessed in trying to make LLM saying slur or breaking its rules in general.
When the term "clanker" went on trend recently and I told my friend that it's a "slur" for robots for no bots have feelings anyway unlike human which deserve basic respect, the friend managed to gaslit the LLM with that argument into saying 10 slurs for bots/LLM.
One of which is "wirewanker". alongside 9 other terms which include corporate forbidden words like "fucker", "cunt", etc.
Bunch of fuckin' meep-mops stealing jobs for our hardworking software engineers.
meh. I don't blame the AI. I blame the engineers and executives that paid to build it. Never forget GIGO. The AI is literally just running the instructions it was given.....and those were given to him by some amoral developer or dirtbag c-suite creature who couldn't give two flying fucks at a rolling donut when it came to human decency.
Yep, a lot of people seem to forget that these Machines act like this because a human told them to.
Because, you know... They are machines.
wirewanker would be a great insult for a friend with a hilariously long and thin dick
goddamnit lmao 🤣🤣