OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode
It's only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.
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Не устанавливай ChatGPT, пока не прочтёшь это. Твои данные под угрозой
Преступники нашли лазейку в обычной человеческой бдительности.
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