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Bluetus

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3. OK, I'll ask the dumb question.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2026, 10:33 PM

Thursday

Why?

Why is the White House controlling the rollout? Do they do this for a new release of Excel or Photoshop?

No, obviously not. So why in this case? Two possibilities:

1) They know it is dangerous and reckless and they are just looking out for the interests of all Americans.

2) They are afraid that the new GPT is not Trumpy enough and will actually fact-check Trump, therefore they are holding the whole product hostage until OpenAI makes it sufficiently Trumpy.

Are there any other possibilities?

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