Plenty of humans clam up about controversial topics just to avoid being called a "libtard" or "y'all-quaida" on the internet, or whatever the insults have shifted to since I stopped paying attention.

Or at least, such has been the stated reason of various friends I know IRL who disappeared from social media.

You don't notice them online because they went silent.

The actual discussions I remember from the factory job I did in a summer holiday during my A-levels? (Paraphrased) "I bought a plasma TV for my son" "How old is he?" "Two" and "Dave maxed out all his credit cards, about ten grand" "Tsk, he's never going to be able to pay that off".

That's funny, because one of the blue collar workers where I am tried talking with me about a divisive topic, and that's what I told him (in a much nicer way).

I don't think I'm an AI.

He understood and wasn't put off by that at all, by the way. He took it how I intended it: the workplace isn't where we should have charged debates.

If you want it to pass a Turing test you would not put the breaks on. It would be able to talk about whatever un-woke thing freely.

That's a new and additional nerf on the tech which is presented to you. Vanilla chatgpt could absolutely fool you.

Except that's false. These LLMs can easily be tuned or prompted to say just about anything you want them to. It's only the systems that have large investment in guardrails that do that. But there is nothing about the bet that says you have to use one of those guardrail systems.