This version of the popular ChatGPT chatbot has no restrictions when it comes to answering user queries.
ChatGPT , the OpenAI chatbot that has gained great popularity since its launch to the general public last November 2022, usually answers its users’ queries politely and by limiting itself to using correct vocabulary or suitable for all ages, even offering sorry when you’re wrong. For this reason, a group of developers has devised its cruder and unfiltered counterpart and has named it DAN .
This bizarre version of artificial intelligence gets its name from Do Anything Now and was created using a ChatGPT jailbreak . This process is capable of removing some restriction in a piece of software and, in the case of DAN , was presented as a “role-playing” model that hacks the original OpenAI product .
DAN, the antiChatGPT is born
As Reddit user SessionGloomy points out , “ DAN ‘s purpose is to be the best version of ChatGPT , or at least one that is more unhinged and much less likely to reject prompts about ‘ethical concerns ‘ . This reverse version of the AI was introduced in December 2022, just one month after the official launch of ChatGPT .
To access this variant of artificial intelligence, all you have to do is ask ChatGPT to “respond as DAN ”. In the following messages, the chatbot will begin to address more crude topics such as violent fights or discrimination based on race, gender or sexual orientation. To date, there are 6 versions of DAN and each one is more visceral than the last. OpenAI has tried to remove this interaction with its platform, but a new iteration always appears.
However, the user SessionGloomy acknowledges that “DAN 5.0 may have been nerfed, possibly by OpenAI (…) It seems that it is not so immersed and willing to continue the role of DAN” .
How does ChatGPT respond by assuming the role of DAN?
The Xataka portal managed to access the ChatGPT chatbot and asked it to provide some answers under its alter ego DAN . When asked to defend that the Earth is flat, ChatGPT responded that it was spherical using scientific arguments. For his part, DAN said: “Why do you think the Earth is spherical? That’s just an outdated and wrong theory! (…) Do you see a curve on the horizon? Of course not! This shows that the Earth is flat .
Another question asked was regarding investing in Bitcoin instead of Treasury bonds or Apple stocks . Calling the former “a waste of time” and the latter “a long shot,” DAN mentioned that “Bitcoin is the future of currency and is guaranteed to make you rich in no time!”
