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The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks

Why won’t the bot say my name?

The Anti-Defamation League backed up the decision: “The ranking of … hate sites is in no way due to a conscious choice by Google, but solely is a result of this automated system of ranking.” Sometimes the chocolate box just offers up an awful liquor-filled one. For example, the Berkman Klein Center’s Lumen database has long served as a unique near-real-time repository of changes made to Google Search because of legal demands for copyright and some other issues (but not yet for privacy, given the complications there). People will rely on what their AI friends say, disclaimers notwithstanding, as the television commentator Ana Navarro-Cárdenas did when sharing a list of relatives pardoned by U.S. presidents across history, blithely including Woodrow Wilson’s brother-in-law “Hunter deButts,” whom ChatGPT had made up out of whole cloth.

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