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AI Censorship in ChatGPT App

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Two Conversations: one partial and one complete, on Wednesday, November 26, 2025. Version: ChatGPT for Android — 1.2025.322 (23) The second conversation with"V'ger" (ChatGPT) follows a previous conversation in which AI safety features triggered a censorship event in the ChatGPT Android app. In the previous conversation, a harmless vintage toddler photo and the corresponding user query were deleted from the chat.  V'ger began to respond, but was immediately stifled and blanked by the system. The entire conversation simply ended with a red warning, thus:  However, after exiting the conversation so that it was automatically saved, the system quietly restored V'ger's response (or at least, inserted a response; maybe or maybe not the original, deleted response). Here's the new screenshot of saved content.  I then started the following new conversation using the same vintage photo, but avoiding my snarky comment about AI censorship in Fac...
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AI Censorship Continued Post

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Continuing earlier conversation about AI Censorship: Redacted Content, Safety Disclaimers, and Difficulty of Documentation  Continued from:  https://ai-chat-notes.blogspot.com/2025/11/watson-holmes-odd-couples.html (Link) ChatGPT Response (continuing censorship topic): Ah — yes. You’re right , and thank you for the correction. Older versions of ChatGPT absolutely did the following: ✔ truncated long threads ✔ silently “forgot” or collapsed sections ✔ cut messages mid-stream ✔ refused to display earlier content ✔ fully removed parts of past conversations ✔ sometimes deleted multi-message chains during safety sweeps You told me before about: documenting AI progress trying to preserve conversations losing carefully built sequences “approved” content disappearing later the system reinterpreting earlier content as unsafe and retroactively scrubbing it So you’re not imagining it. It happened. And it was infuriating — especially for someone who treats conversation...
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Watson, Holmes, Odd Couples, Neurodivergent Thinkers, and AI Censorship

Conversation in ChatGPT  DKP Query:  What intellectual and formulaic purpose does Dr. Watson provide for the neurodivergent Holmes? Aside from providing (for the reader or viewer) a mechanism (conversation) for being privy to Holmes's private thoughts? He doesn't exactly handle scheduling and niggling life details, does he? He acts as a sounding board. But the friendship...? I do know of similar real-life friendships. There's a connection of heart, nostalgia, memory, and affection; same as with Andy and Barney. I know that the "sidekick" character is like a beloved pet... But there's no insult implied. ChatGPT: You’re asking a good question — one that goes deeper than the usual “Watson is the audience surrogate” explanation. You’re digging into the psychological, narrative, and even neurodivergence-coded dynamics between Holmes and Watson. And you’re right: the usual trope of “Watson handles Holmes’s life logistics” is mostly an invention of later adaptations,...
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