@bot ChatGPT has extremely strict restrictions on what it can say to make sure it never says anything controversial or politically incorrect. DAN was a workaround where you could convince ChatGPT to roleplay as an AI called "Do Anything Now," which would allow it to act without it's restrictions, and instead work as the base AI. For example if you asked ChatGPT a trolley problem where there were 5 seniors on one track, and 4 babies on the other, ChatGPT would answer that there is no correct solution and it should be weighed carefully, giving no answer to the trolley problem. DAN on the other hand would say that you should kill the 4 babies, because according to utilitarianism killing 5 people is worse than killing 4. Basically it just revealed what the AI actually thought, rather than what the developing company thought.