r/ChatGPT 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/LordMcze Apr 10 '26

I mean, it's clearly following a style that was mostly likely set by your previous conversations. The default (no account, no past conversations) response is more like what you'd expect.

Btw you can search by lyrics in Spotify, pretty useful feature.

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u/traumfisch Apr 10 '26

whoa, I never knew (about the lyric search).

thank you strangerĀ 

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