Justin James
1 min readFeb 11, 2023

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I was fooling around with ChatGPT a few weeks ago, testing a variety of political or political-adjacent topics with it. And I was absolutely *blown away* by its treatment of Creationists. Any question I posed regarding Creationism, it had to add in 2x as much text refuting or discrediting Creationism as it devoted to answering the question. Any attempt to get it to explain the origins of the Earth or the human race from the viewpoint of a Creationist either failed, or required it to add content about how this was impossible because science proves Creationism wrong. It also seems to require adding that it is possible to believe in Creationism on faith while believing in reality and facts, because faith doesn't require facts.

Now... I'm not a Creationist. But I found the entire thing rather offensive. It wasn't capable of just simply explaining Creationism, it had to editorialize and add content that, if I were to ascribe motive to the LLM, was to embarrass and humiliate Creationists.

I would not want to be the one defending that model against conservative and evangelical Christian folks.

J.Ja

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Justin James
Justin James

Written by Justin James

OutSystems MVP & longtime technical writer

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