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The Pitfall of a ‘Woke’ Chat GPT and Why Elon Musk’s xAI Could Be the Game Changer

Melissa Jordan
4 min readJul 13, 2023

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Today, more than ever, it’s important to be aware of the power of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP). We’ve seen AI tools such as chatbots becoming increasingly popular for customer service purposes in various industries. While these bots can provide fast, accurate responses to user questions, they also come with a certain degree of risk.

I recently asked ChatGPT to analyze data I inputed from an old article about new journalism and particulary, Hunter S. Thompson. I added a paragraph of diatribe for it to analyze realizing HST’s uncompromising and honest remarks could often be grotesque and offensive. This is what he stated reflecting on his own profession, journalism:

The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits — a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” Hunter S. Thompson

After inputing this highly offensive ditty, I got a swift “Danger Will Robinson” reply back from the Chat GPT bot:

Hmmmm…..well, this got my attention. If certain input datasets are off limits then this is censorship at it’s politically and socially F’in best. I mean are we so far gone that highly irreverant and funny movies like Tropic Thunder and a highly respected Rolling Stone journalist who wrote the iconic “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail” are canceled for their satirical insights? Enough….seriously….enough! AI is spewing out woke sermons instead of helpful, unbiased information. Enter the bombastic Elon Musk and his xAI a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.

ChatGPT’s Wokeness and the Muskian Intervention

ChatGPT is the talk of the town. It’s eloquent, it’s versatile, but it’s also been a little bit… “woke.” Now, I’m all for a bit of social awareness, but when it comes to AI, we need…

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Melissa Jordan
Melissa Jordan

Written by Melissa Jordan

Founder of DigitalMoneySavants, Blogger, Off-the-Path Traveler & Advocate. Join me @ https://mdjordan911.medium.com/subscribe

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