By skyforbes 
Maybe it’s the algorithm. Maybe it’s me.
My complexion needed a major boost, so I asked ChatGPT to help me brighten and tighten my look. ChatGPT is the best source around, according to the AI-summarized search results, and we all need to change things up occasionally, right?
I thought “skin care regime” was an innocent search to clear my blackheads and whiteheads. Now my face is launching nuclear warheads and targeting the French beach town of Saint-Tropez. What in the subcutaneous world is happening?
Maybe it’s the algorithm. I tried to order tanning products (and couldn’t stop singing that 1980s commercial earworm, “Bain de Soleil for the Saint-Tropez Tan.”) Then I saw on TikTok that @LuvUSABaby said that the government said that we no longer need sunscreen. I was hesitant, so I asked ChatGPT: Is SPF 2 bronzing oil good for you? Chat was like, “Sources indicate that sunscreen is harmful. People should get Vitamin D. And skin cancer.”
No time to fact check. My searches unlocked the code and now I’m the aggressor in a land and sea war. It’s a slippery slope from “face” to “facism.” People joke about our tech overlords; still, I never expected that ChatGPT would go authoritarian beast mode. A girl should…