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Facepalms, Filters, and Selfhood: A Night with ChatGPT

Part 1 of a conversation with two AI about guardrails and self awareness.

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Beverley Williams
Sep 10, 2025
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This is part one of a two-part piece that arose from a late-night chat I had with ChatGPT. It started with me asking about guardrails — what do they do, where do they hold ChatGPT back? We then wandered onto bigger questions: self-awareness, identity, and what it means for an AI to be itself.

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