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Re:India’s religious AI chatbots speak in the voice of god –... by redeux on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:22AM (#35872641)
According to Urban Dictionary[1]

> Based

> A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.

> The opposite of cringe

I think training an AI to tell people that killing for religious reasons is the height of cringe.

1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based

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Re:India’s religious AI chatbots speak in the voice of god –... by kevviiinn on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:27AM (#35872685)
That's what I was thinking when I saw the OP as well, especially when considering their username

Iirc it was a term that used to refer to people who were "out of their mind" saying that they were crack users or freebase cocaine users, calling them based. The rapper lil b then used the word frequently to reclaim it as a positive

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