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An interesting article by Jacob Mchangama and Jules White (Time); an excerpt: The material of a long dead comedian is a good example of content that the world´s leading GenAI systems find "harmful." Lenny Bruce shocked contemporary society in the 1950s and 60s with his profanity laden standup routines. Bruce's…

Thanks to Jacob Mchangama, I learned that Bing Chat and ChatGPT-4 (which use the same underlying software) refuse to answer queries that contain the words "nigger," "faggot," "kike," and likely others as well. This leads to the refusal to talk about Kike Hernandez (might he have been secretly born in…

Here's an excerpt from the article, by free speech historian Jacob Mchangama, writing in Time: On July 30, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that the government will seek to enact legislation for "special situations where other countries, cultures, and religions could be insulted, potentially resulting in significant negative…

The E.U.’s Digital Services Act will encourage censorship around the world and even in the U.S.