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

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:

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Melissa Jordan
Melissa Jordan

Written by Melissa Jordan

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