@tidytips1) OpenAI lets you make customized ChatGPT bots, and features popular ones on their website
2) someone made a customized bot that promotes extremely unhealthy incel-type ideology about relationships and physical appearance, which will gladly tell you that you’re so ugly you’re subhuman and that you need to spend your life savings on surgery or no one will ever love you.
3) this not only made it through safety checks but was featured
4) not only was it featured, but after this came to widespread attention and it was reported to OpenAI, they rejected the request to remove it
5) which came to widespread attention and now we’re here