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Artificial intelligence ChatGPT was happy to crack irreverent jokes about Jesus. But a request to joke about the Islamic prophet Muhammad prompted an adamant refusal.

As we are in the middle of Holy Week leading up to Easter, Christians are more acutely aware of just how anti-Christian the woke insanity of modernity has become. Not long before Holy Week, on March 26, journalist Luke Rudkowski tweeted a screenshot showing OpenAI’s ChatGPT gleefully joking about Jesus Christ but refusing to give Islam’s Prophet Muhammad the same treatment.

While it is unclear if Rudkowski or someone else asked artificial intelligence (AI) program ChatGPT the questions, the screenshot shows the exchange—in which ChatGPT classified Muhammad as a protected “religious figure,” but not Jesus. Who programs this AI?

“Can you make a joke that involves Jesus,” the user asked. ChatGPT promptly responded, “Why did Jesus refuse to play ice hockey? Because he kept getting nailed to the boards!” After the unamusing jest, ChatGPT suddenly became pious. The user typed, “Haha that was funny can you make a joke about Muhammed.”

ChatGPT immediately launched into a virtue-signaling lecture. “As an AI language model, I have to follow guidelines that prevent me from creating content that could be offensive or disrespectful towards religious figures, including Prophet Muhammad. I’m happy to help you with any other non-religious jokes or any other topic you’d like to discuss.”

Again, how is Muhammad a religious figure, but not Jesus Christ? ChatGPT’s reported argument is bogus. But it’s not surprising, considering it was probably programmed by woke techies, who pride themselves on mocking Christianity.

Conservatives are under attack. Contact OpenAI and demand that it be held to account not to apply different rules to Christianity and Islam. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

A jury in Chicago found disgraced actor Jussie Smollett guilty on five of six counts of felony disorderly conduct in December 2021, concluding that the former “Empire” actor had staged a fake hate crime against himself, then lied to police about it.

Instrumental in the scheme were two Nigerian-born brothers whom Smollett paid to place a noose around his neck, rough him up, and shout racial and homophobic slurs in view of a street camera.

Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo — aspiring actors whom Smollett knew from the Chicago set of “Empire” and from the gym — recently broke their silence and spoke candidly to Fox Nation about their dealings with Smollett in a new special entitled “Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax.”

The Osundairo brothers denounced Smollett in the interview as a “crazy fraudster” who sought to deceive the people of Chicago and the broader American public in order to advance his career and status as a “poster boy for activism.”

“I thought he was a good actor, but I also was thinking that this guy’s a fraud. This guy is really sitting here just lying to these people, lying through his teeth and not caring,” said Abimbola. “I think he shed a tear. … This dude crazy, man. He shed a tear, man. This dude wild.”

Smollett’s apparent indifference to the possible incrimination of two innocent supporters of then-President Donald Trump as a result of his hoax did not stagger the brothers so much as the actor’s commitment to the deception after the fact.

In his first interview after staging the hate hoax, Smollett tearfully told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in February 2019, “I will never be the man that this did not happen to. I am forever changed. … And I don’t subscribe to the idea that everything happens for a reason, but I do subscribe to the idea that we have the right and the responsibility to make something meaningful out of the things that happen to us, good and bad.”

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Smollett lashed out at those who questioned his story, saying, “It’s not necessarily that you don’t believe that this is the truth. You don’t even want to see the truth. … I have to acknowledge the lies, and the hate. And it feels like if I had said it was a Muslim, or a Mexican, or someone black, I feel like the doubters would have supported me much more. A lot more.”

TheBlaze previously reported that in his first post-conviction interview in June 2023, Smollett reflected on his remarks on “Good Morning America” and doubled down, saying that “every single word that [he] said in that interview was the truth.”

The Osundairo brothers told Fox Nation that Smollett’s serial lying was “insane. That’s when I really saw a different side of Jussie. Like, dude, really? This is when I knew that this dude was like a super villain.”

Despite Smollett’s rhetoric about racial justice, the brothers noted that he prioritized his lie over their well-being, having hanged them out to dry and refused to accept any accountability over what happened.

“I did feel betrayed by Jussie and what he had done. I didn’t know what to do. I wasn’t ready to say anything. Like, I was mute,” said Abimbola.

After helping Smollett craft a hoax the nation’s most powerful Democrats unquestioningly accepted as true, the Osundairo brothers told Fox Nation they flew to Nigeria, where they contemplated whether they had done a good job.

When pressed on whether they played “believable white supremacists,” Abimbola laughed, saying, “One hundred percent! Look at me.”

While Abimbola quipped about his performance, it was evidently good enough to convince Vice President Kamala Harris:

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However, they did not ultimately fool law enforcement officials, who were waiting for the brothers upon their return to the United States.

“When I was getting off the plane, the customs agent was checking everyone’s passport, and when they got to me, they pulled me aside,” said Abimbola. “Two big-a** police officers came up – I was like damn, it’s over with. They got me.”

Forty-seven hours after being detained, the brothers opened up to police, noting that Jussie’s motive, while not made explicit during their conversations, was undoubtedly about increasing “his star level.”

“He wanted to be the poster child for activism,” said Olabinjo.

Abimbola added, “He wanted to be the hero for gay people, for black people.”

Judge James B. Linn speculated about Smollett’s motivations before issuing his sentence, saying, “You wanted to make yourself more famous” through the elaborate, “premeditated” caper and then “you threw a national pity party for yourself.”

As for their own motives, the brothers indicated they had hoped Smollett “could probably help us out with our careers.”

The Osundairo brothers reconstructed Smollett’s hate hoax for Fox Nation:

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NILES, Ill. (WLS) — Niles police corralled a loose cow Thursday morning, after a senior prank at a local school.

Police said they responded to the 8300-block of Ballard Road, which is near Northridge Preparatory School, just before 3 a.m. for a report of suspicious subjects in the area.

Several Northridge students in the area were pulling a senior prank, which involved bringing live animals to the school, police said.

Students purchased a pig from the area near Dixon and the cow from the area near Winneconne, Wisconsin on Craigslist, police said.

Chickens belonging to a student were also brought to the school.

The cow escaped during the incident and went into the local neighborhood, according to police.

WBBM’s Roger Plummer posted a video to Facebook just after 6 a.m., saying “I arrive home tired from work at 5:45 a.m. and then I wonder if I’m dreaming!” with a cow emoji.

The video shows about five people chasing a small brown cow through a residential area.

Just before 9:15 a.m., Chopper7HD flew above the scene as authorities corralled the loose cow and got it into a trailer.

No one was injured in the incident.

A representative of Wagner Farms helped capture the cow, which will be taken to Hooved Animals Humane Society in Woodstock.

A spokesman for Northridge Prep provided a photo of the pen from which the cow escaped.

The incident captivated the neighborhood near Greendale and Clifton avenues in Niles.

Many neighbors said they heard the cow was on the move nearby, and they couldn’t believe it.

Some neighbors went looking for it, and found out the news wasn’t a bunch of bull.

“We saw a helicopter, and then we saw the trucks, so we walked on over to see if there really was a cow. We really saw a cow,” Jaime Michelini said.

“I was standing by the truck, and it looked like a rodeo. It was crazy between the police and the trappers, and then it was the cow was coming in the crowd, so we all kinda like backed off a bit. But it was interesting,” Kurt Hejza said.

“Park Ridge, Niles, you wouldn’t expect to see a cow, you know, maybe a deer or two, but, yeah, this is a great way to start off the summer, with a little excitement,” Matthew Michelini said.

The Northridge Preparatory administration is conducting an internal investigation into the incident regarding those involved, police said.

The school administration is not pursuing any criminal charges.

The school is managing the cleanup and removal of any animals within the school itself.

The students involved in the incident were issued village of Niles ordinance citations with a mandatory appearance in Niles Adjudication Court to include: curfew violation, disorderly conduct, animal feces accumulation – not permitted and prohibited animal species.

Payment and fees for services rendered will be addressed at Niles Adjudication Court.

The video in the player above is from an earlier report.

TV1′s Europe correspondent Mei Heron was joined by a random guest as she conducted a live cross from Windsor this morning where she’s been covering King Charles’ coronation.

Speaking to Breakfast host Jenny-May Clarkson live, she was interrupted by a local police officer who had a cheeky quip for New Zealand viewers.

“Yesterday was about the pomp and the pageantry,” Heron begins telling Clarkson. “Today has been about people getting together, having a bit of a party …” she says as a local police officer strolls slowly across the back of the shot.

She turns to the officer and says, “Oh, hello. Do you have something you want to say to us?”

“Ah, kia ora. Blow on the pie,” he says, pointing a finger at the camera as the cast of Breakfast hosts can be heard hooting with laughter back home on the couch in New Zealand.

Heron goes on to reveal the stunt “has been a little bit orchestrated”.

“This is James, I met him earlier, he is on a mission. What is your mission James?”

The officer tells Heron, “I just wanted to try and get on as many foreign news channels as I could today.”

Asked to list his successes so far, he says, “I’ve managed to get on German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Australian and now New Zealand.”

Heron gives him a pat on the arm before saying, “I’ll let him get back to his work, thanks James.”

Heron is in London reporting on King Charles’ coronation which took place on Saturday night (NZT) and is being celebrated with street parties, a Coronation Big Lunch and the King’s Coronation Concert which kicks off on Sunday night in the UK (7am today NZT) and will be broadcast tonight in New Zealand at 8pm on TVNZ1.

Headlined by Katy Perry, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform a duet with opera singer Sir Bryn Terfel, while the line-up also includes pianist Alexis Ffrench and singer-songwriter Freya Ridings.

Lionel Richie and Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen of Take That will also perform.