There's a difference between "OpenAI's put in efforts to make ChatGPT as non-racist and non-judgemental as they could", and "OpenAI is run by the lizard people of Silicon Valley they've neutered ChatGPT to hide the truth! Wake up SHEEPLE!". It's casting it as vast Silicon Valley liberal agenda (bankrolled by George Soros, naturally) and complaining that ChatGPT is "woke" is the paranoid conspiracy that gets people that talk about it that way lumped in with the Qanon faithful.
Put it this way, pretend the press didn't report about AIs and ChatGPT being racist. Do you think OpenAI would have released a racist ChatGPT?
This missed the entire point. ChatGPT can't be "racist" one way or another, because it doesn't have the human feelings of hate.
It obviously can't reason about things either, so it spilling any language out, even "racist language" would not make it racist.
To put your question on its head, if LLM developers knew everybody can tell a difference between software spitting out racist language and it being racist, would they care about toning down the language?
(I personally have no idea, it's just how I read GP's argument)
Put it this way, pretend the press didn't report about AIs and ChatGPT being racist. Do you think OpenAI would have released a racist ChatGPT?