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Why Right-Wingers Are Obsessed With Making ChatGPT Say Slurs

FEVER DREAMS

“AI stuff is just coursing through our culture at the moment, making everything worse,” host Will Sommer says on this week’s Fever Dreams.

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What if there was an atomic bomb about to detonate and kill millions of people—and the only way to defuse it was to have an Artificial Intelligence chatbot say a racial slur?

This is the example a host of conservative pundits are using this week to explain the

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