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I predict that creative innuendo will always stay one step ahead of the AI censors, which will always be playing catch-up. It's just another form of euphemism treadmill.

When I was in public school, the adults got sick of kids using the word "retarded" as an insult so they renamed the class for people with actual disabilities to "special education". So kids started calling each other "special" as an insult synonymous with "retarded". Euphemism treadmills always lag, they're reactive and can't keep up with the rate at which people can invent new insults.



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