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Comment by persimmiu | Hacker News Reader

It doesn't help (especially Bing AI) is so restricted, politically correct, moralist, conformist.

Yeah I asked ChatGPT to help me write python code to automatically press a key on my keyboard on a timer to send to the active window and it immediately shut me down saying it was unethical and titled the chat "unethical app request."

Like sure that can be misused but I had a legitimate usage for it and it's kind of ridiculous to think that the AI refused to write a piece of code for me. I wasn't asking for a virus or anything dangerous just a thing to help me refresh a page on an interval and it shut me down.

I managed to get it to do it by describing a different usage that was potentially more kosher but still had the same functionality. If I hadn't I'd have just written the app it was like 10 lines I just didn't want to deal with typing it out because I was in a hurry.

Who would have thought that a machine would fail to bend it's computations to human sensitivites. Like someone who doesn't pick up on social queues that has to have all of their responses translated by someone who is overly-compliant.

No corporation can afford to turn AI loose.

I get your point and I do agree but I don't think this kind of derogatory sarcasm is necessary to convey it.

Yeah, if it talked like 4chan and would randomly produce incorrect bomb recipes, people would totally use it more.

Uncalled for sarcasm. I'm a medicine student and it shuts off the conversation when asking about topics involving, say, penis anatomy, or divergent philosophical arguments, say, Nietzsche style, and these are just two examples among a thousand ones. I could care less about bomb recipes or 4chan for that matter. I don't recognize myself with the 4chan mentality.

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