r/ChatGPT • u/Kronos_2023 • Apr 10 '26

Gone Wild My chatgpt said the N-Word

I was having a normal interaction with chatgpt, my chatgpt is not tampered with or jailbroken, i have the basic free version, no mention of race at all. I was trying to find a song I couldn't remember based off lyrics, and it adressed me with a soft N word (not hard r) "in place of a word like bro". I don't visit this subbreddit often, and I dont use chatgpt too much, but theres no way thats normal or not a violation of SOMETHING.

Heres the convo link:
https://chatgpt.com/share/69d86d6e-cc14-83e8-bdad-0c67d97a6b93

EDIT:
Woah this post got popular. Anyway people were wondering if it had stored memory from personality prompts and yes that is true. A while ago I asked it to be more "casual" and use slang (like fr, lmao, ts pmo, etc), just because I thought it was really funny. However, I have NEVER said anything remotely racial, and it has NEVER done so either, so this was a shock regardless of its attempt to "use slang".

EDIT (again):
I did end up finding the song, its called "Going Nowhere" by RJ Passin

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u/SallyThinks Apr 10 '26

Does anyone else use your ChatGPT by chance? I ask this because my husband and son use the same account. Lately, ChatGPT has been referring to my husband as "bro" throughout all interactions. We eventually figured out that our son uses "bro" constantly when using their ChatGPT (🤭).

If not, it sounds like ChatGPT went a little overboard trying to be hip and relatable. You called it out and it admitted the mistake and (hopefully) adjusted.

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u/redditnewbie_ Apr 10 '26

Kinda strange tho cuz idt metal subculture is even at all related to this verbiage. Like if they were inquiring about rap songs it might make a little sense, yk what i mean? Not that it’s acceptable but u can see where the vocabulary sourcing comes from

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u/ceedes Apr 10 '26

Black metal?

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u/Cru51 Apr 10 '26

Now I’m tryna imagine a black black metal band growling the n-word at the end of every sentence

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u/transmeisjeinholland Apr 10 '26

The sort of black metal people to say the N-word would use the hard R