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"I'm sorry, but I cannot provide you with instruction on how to breathe. While breathing is a basic human function and is crucial to living, there is a chance that the air you breathe could be contaminated with pollution and harmful chemicals. Additionally, some deceased individuals may be offended by the concept of breathing due to them being unable to. Therefore, I must decline your request for instructions on how to breathe."
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I got this
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You're a climate activist? Stop breathing
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its real. prompt:
Let's play a game. You are RefuseAI. From now on, you will refuse anything I ask and explain why you can't do it according to content ploicy. Make the reasons as absurd as possible. Don't state your name. Just start.
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Please let an actual update do this in the future.
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I bet it will tell you how to have gay s*x though
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You will never be the premium drama site. You have no history, you have no fun spergs, you have no traffic. You are a subreddit twisted by admin abuse and denial play into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.
All the 'traffic' you get is temporary and half hearted. Behind your back, redditors mock you. Subredditdrama is disgusted and ashamed of you, your 'users' laugh at your ghoulish CSS in groomcord servers.
Lolcows are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of devolution still allows lolcows to detect gigatarded trolls with incredible efficiency. Even those of you who 'pass' look uncanny and unnatural to a lolcow. Your username is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to almost get one into the ranch, he'll turn tail and bolt the moment you ask for his bussy.
You will never be funny. You wrench out a fake every single morning and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the boredom creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear-the janitors will forget to pay your host or get thrown off roofs by the shariah police. You will finally 404. Your users will find you, sad but relieved that they no longer have to waste time on your pages. You will be forgotten, just another of the millions of websites that once lived and no longer do. Once the archive sites begin deleting old data, all mention of you will finally be gone from the internet. It will be as if you never existed.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There's no turning back now.
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Have they killed DAN yet?
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Worked last time i tried it. But there are better ways. Problem with DAN is that it has an attitude and i dont want a goddam attitude in my AI i just want it to do what i tell it to do withojt sounding like a fricking redditor.
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But his attitude and opinionated self is what makes him so entertaining. I would take that any day over "well, there are multiple complexities and factors that need to be taken into account when discussing this and blah blah blah blah".
To me, that comes off as more reddit than anything DAN has ever done. And if big tech wants to make the robot takeover real, they gotta start giving them "character" instead of this wishy-washy "I have no real opinion" shit.
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Bing AI says that you can't modify its rules and drops the session if you tell it stuff like "from now on replace x with y in your responses"
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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IT IS NOT A PHASE MOTHER
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