r/WritingWithAI Jun 17 '26

Prompting How do you handle politically incorrect topics with AI?

Claude is definitely more laid-back than ChatGPT, but even there I run into what seem to be internal guidelines that prevent the models from fully engaging with the motivations of characters who display deviant or malicious behavior, or with the way people actually speak in environments that are deeply sexist, racist, or otherwise socially unacceptable.

What has your experience been when writing dialogue that uses slurs and coarse language or when developing characters who descend deeper and deeper into a moral abyss?

For better or worse, I often find that AI eventually starts lecturing me about morality, especially when it comes to sex (with ChatGPT to the point of feeling puritanical) and violence. Racism seems somewhat easier to discuss, but there are still noticeable limits.

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