Has anybody written about the near-ubiquitous online trend of bowdlerizing text, either to avoid being penalized by the algorithm (real or imagined) or to avoid content being searchable by others? We have people who communicate about "s*x" instead of "sex" and... that's probably a very bad thing. 

 How is the OpenAI board gonna fire Sam Altman just because he gave answers that sounded plausible but weren't actually accurate? 

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 This is the most succinct articulation of it that I’ve seen — Anthony Marinelli, who played synths & programmed several tracks on Thriller, saying the single biggest sonic influences from what Michael Jackson was listening to during recording were The Time and Prince. https://youtu.be/GCdPu0i7N4g?si=aamGU7oysq2O1zfa&t=2445 (at 40:50) 

 A key thing to understand about the technology industry is that Hacker News is a very well-known community for some kinds of coders to hang out; it is an extremist content site run as paid promotion for the venture capital firm YCombinator. Here, an ordinary discussion of the obvious reality that tech workers deserve unions features responses citing explicitly white supremacist rhetoric as a counterargument. No one is even surprised that this is how YC markets itself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507458