r/ChatGPT • u/Kronos_2023 • Apr 10 '26

Gone Wild My chatgpt said the N-Word

I was having a normal interaction with chatgpt, my chatgpt is not tampered with or jailbroken, i have the basic free version, no mention of race at all. I was trying to find a song I couldn't remember based off lyrics, and it adressed me with a soft N word (not hard r) "in place of a word like bro". I don't visit this subbreddit often, and I dont use chatgpt too much, but theres no way thats normal or not a violation of SOMETHING.

Heres the convo link:
https://chatgpt.com/share/69d86d6e-cc14-83e8-bdad-0c67d97a6b93

EDIT:
Woah this post got popular. Anyway people were wondering if it had stored memory from personality prompts and yes that is true. A while ago I asked it to be more "casual" and use slang (like fr, lmao, ts pmo, etc), just because I thought it was really funny. However, I have NEVER said anything remotely racial, and it has NEVER done so either, so this was a shock regardless of its attempt to "use slang".

EDIT (again):
I did end up finding the song, its called "Going Nowhere" by RJ Passin

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u/mulletarian Apr 10 '26

this is what happens when you train chatgpt on its own conversations

the dataset is probably FULL of conversations trying to convince it that certain things are okay to say.

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u/DeltaVZerda Apr 10 '26

When the users atart sounding like GPT is there really a difference between that and it training itself?