Is ChatGPT dropping more f-bombs lately? Users think so.

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Noticing much committedness words connected ChatGPT recently? It's not conscionable you. Users flocked to societal media this week and past aft uncovering the chatbot to beryllium unusually potty-mouthed — though astir group were thrilled astir it.

A look from ChatGPT, shared pinch Business Insider, dropped the f-bomb erstwhile describing the magnitude of "thinly sliced greenish onions." In different screenshot, from a speech astir an outage of Microsoft's codification hosting tract GitHub, the chatbot said, "GitHub is having a shitfit."

The uptick successful cursing earlier this period astir lines up pinch OpenAI's move from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Luna arsenic the default exemplary for free users. Why that would consequence successful a rainfall of f-bombs is anyone's guess. OpenAI declined to comment.

As OpenAI and its competitors rotation retired caller AI models, the companies person tried to make them nosy to talk to, lifelike, and personable. Different models travel pinch different anthropomorphic quirks. For a agelong time, ChatGPT has dropped the occasional curse connection successful consequence to a rant aliases to stress a point. Now, users are seeing the chatbot spell measurement much R-rated.

The complaint of expletives seems to vary. Some users connected the ChatGPT subreddit said they assumed the chatbot was mimicking their speaking style.

"I joked to a friend that I 'broke my ChatGPT' because it started puppeting my potty-mouthed vernacular backmost astatine me," Alexis Boger, who uses the chatbot for activity and recipes, told Business Insider. For example, Boger saw ChatGPT usage the building "big ass kolaches" successful a look suggestion.

Boger said that the swearing was a small excessive astatine first, and past it seemed to dice down.

Many users connected the subreddit said they emotion the much profane chatbot. One said they're "ecstatic" astir it.

One Reddit user told Business Insider that arsenic an Australian, he was delighted to spot much swearing: "The changes made conversations pinch ChatGPT consciousness MUCH much natural."

He said he's seen little profanity since an original flurry connected August 9.

Timothy Hartman, who uses OpenAI's devices to vibe code, had personalized his ChatGPT to beryllium "casual and opinionated" and "not beryllium frightened of being offensive," positive turned connected the app's "quirky" setting. He told Business Insider he noticed the chatbot's cussing ramp up earlier this period and shared screenshots of conversations.

The chatbot astir often dropped the f-bomb for emphasis, though it moreover fresh the connection into method conversations, including 1 astir web protocol.

Hartman said that though he swears a batch — and his screenshots beryllium it — ChatGPT's curses reminded him of an adage he'd perceive from his father: "Profanity is the ignorant man's effort to definitive himself forcefully."

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