But it was a difficult sell, as the app was also prone to blurting out violent, sexist and racist remarks.But an Interview With ChatGPT Reveals Their Limits To build that safety system, OpenAI took a leaf out of the playbook of social media companies like Facebook, who had already shown it was possible to build AIs that could detect toxic language like hate speech to help remove it from their platforms.That detector would be built into ChatGPT to check whether it was echoing the toxicity of its training data, and filter it out before it ever reached the user.More from TIME In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Sama employees in Kenya contributed to a tool it was building to detect toxic content, which was eventually built into ChatGPT.The statement also said that this work contributed to efforts to remove toxic data from the training datasets of tools like ChatGPT."