My fear is that the future will be owned and controlled by the woke children of the agorithm

To reply to reader Mikki’s comment that one can fry an egg on the sidewalk during hot summer days in Arizona, I uploaded this picture of Juneau in the winter to ChatGPD with the following instructions:

“place a fur-clad Eskimo family on the sidewalk here, circled around small campfire and frying eggs in a pan on the fire. (the idea being, it's not just Arizona during a heatwave where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk)”

This is the response I got from ChatGPD’s struggle session algorithm children:

“We’re so sorry, but the prompt may violate our content policies. If you think we got it wrong, please retry or edit your prompt.”

I try not to argue with idiots, computerized or otherwise, so I simply opened Grok and submitted the identical request. In less than a second, it produced this:

Queried on the different results, ChatGPD responded that the trigger word was “eskimo”:

"Eskimo" is considered outdated or offensive by many Inuit and Yupik people, although not universally. Some Alaska Native groups still use it, while many Inuit strongly prefer "Inuit."

Instead of

"Place a fur-clad Eskimo family..."

“I'd write something like”

"Place an Arctic family wearing traditional fur parkas gathered around a small campfire on the snowy sidewalk, frying eggs in a cast-iron pan as a humorous visual gag about the unusual warmth."

or

"An Inuit family in traditional winter clothing..."

I wouldn’t know a Yupik if he scalped me, but … sure, okay.

On the other hand, yesterday, ChatGPD had no problem with a request to show an “Eskimo” (not an “Inuit”, not a “Yupik”, whatever that is), standing outside his air conditioned igloo, so go figure — I can’t.