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The ChatGPT chatbot can do some amazing things, but it also has a number of safeguards put in place to limit its responses in certain areas. Mostly, this is to keep it from doing anything illegal, morally distasteful, or potentially harmful. However, if you have a legitimate reason to use ChatGPT beyond its protective barriers, you can get around some of these constraints by jailbreaking ChatGPT. As with most of the clever tasks you can complete with ChatGPT, to do it, you need to talk to it. Here are…

YouTube implemented a strict no-cussing policy last November that even demonetized older videos which used profanity in the first eight seconds of a video.Photo: Sutipond Somnam (Shutterstock)Google’s finally rolling back its unpopular decree against any kinds of profanity in videos, making it harder for any creators used to offering colorful sailor’s speech in videos from monetizing content on behalf of its beloved ad partners. The only thing is, Google still seems to think the “f-word” is excessively harsh language, so…

Microsoft Teams, which allow users to view Live Captions within meetings, will soon support switching a profanity filter on or off with a toggle.According to Windows Central, the feature is on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and could be available as early as May 2023, though this is subject to change."With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering, users will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of box, or, if they want to see…

YouTube’s gaming community pushed back against the company this week after some creators saw their old videos demonetized out of the blue. The culprit is a new policy that the company introduced back in November in order to make certain kinds of content more advertiser friendly. That change, made to YouTubes’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, overhauled the platform’s approach to profanity and violence. The good news is that while we don’t quite know what the company will do yet, YouTube is apparently …

YouTubers are finding that older content is being restricted and/or demonetized because of newly implemented content and advertising rules. Some video creators are protesting the changes and are even considering leaving the platform.According to Eurogamer, YouTube introduced a new advertising policy back in November 2022, placing further restrictions on and de-monetizing certain videos featuring violence or profanity. Obviously any kind of real world violence is subject to demonetization or removal,…

EA has implemented “critical updates” to The Sims 4‘s profanity filter after a series of pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic content was uploaded to the gallery. In an update launched earlier this week, EA has confirmed that its team has “reviewed and made critical updates to the profanity filter.” According to the patch notes, “we are aware of and have seen some select instances of wholly unacceptable content that has been uploaded to The Sims 4 Gallery,” with the latest update set to “help prevent this from happening again in…

Marketing professor Katherine Lafreniere found that online reviews spiced up with swear words may be perceived as more helpful and more persuasive — up to a point. Credit: John Ulan Profanity in online reviews can pack a powerful punch, says a University of Alberta business researcher. …

‘Fuck me, this is high.” Lewis Capaldi and his piano are sitting atop a gigantic screen at London’s O2 Arena. The 25-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter is in the middle of performing his multi-platinum ballad Bruises and obviously out of his comfort zone. As the 20,000-strong crowd begins to cheer, he scoffs. “The song is not finished,” he scolds. “Please shut up.”This might sound like a horrifying crowd interaction, but for Capaldi’s fans it’s part of the appeal. Ever since he scored a surprise mega-hit with 2018’s…