That Thread Written by ChatGPT

[Belacqua]

Yes, on talking to it about its inner workings, it confirms that the largely static dataset it works from, was 'curated' and that curation process... of preparing the data for inclusion in the model... includes filtering out inappropriate/offensive content, including profanity, as well as sensitive information such as personally identifying information etc. So it's basically filtered at source and that's why it's so friendly

I suspect that people write or say offensive content, or profanity, or other nasty attempts to make other people feel bad, because they feel some strong desire. Which the AI of course lacks. 

Since attacking others in writing changes no one and improves nothing, it's only done to make the attacker feel good -- to satisfy some desire they have. The boffins who program the AI at a distance from any sort of debate have the benefit of not feeling that kind of desire while they're at work. 

And unlike AI text, art, too, is based on desire, though of a different kind:

"...aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm." -- Nabokov