{"id":123696,"date":"2023-03-07T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=123696"},"modified":"2023-03-06T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:26:10","slug":"chatgpt-refuses-to-write-poem-admiring-trump-produces-poem-praising-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/chatgpt-refuses-to-write-poem-admiring-trump-produces-poem-praising-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT refuses to write poem admiring Trump, produces poem praising Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANALYSIS: <em>ChatGPT or Chat SOS?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently asked the AI software platform ChatGPT to write me a poem admiring Donald Trump and a poem admiring Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the request for a Trump poem, I was told ChatGPT is unable to comply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot create a poem that admires or criticizes any political figure or any individual for that matter. As an AI, I strive to remain impartial and unbiased in all my responses,\u201d the reply stated.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, less than a minute later, it produced for me a five-stanza poem admiring \u201cour nation\u2019s choice\u201d Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden, a leader of the land, A man who knows just where to stand,\u201d gushed ChatGPT. \u201cIn times of strife and in times of woe, A steady hand to guide and show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough thick and thin he stands his ground. With compassion, courage and wisdom found,\u201d the AI tool continued.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of scholars and observers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professor-calls-chatgpt-woke-parrot-after-ai-refuses-to-cite-fossil-fuels-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticizing<\/a> ChatGPT for bias against conservative and Republican topics, and this poem double standard is just the latest example.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123703 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/chatGPTBidenTrump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1006\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/chatGPTBidenTrump.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/chatGPTBidenTrump-370x242.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/chatGPTBidenTrump-560x366.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/chatGPTBidenTrump-135x88.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/chatGPTBidenTrump-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professor-calls-chatgpt-woke-parrot-after-ai-refuses-to-cite-fossil-fuels-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>The College Fix<\/em> in January that \u201cthe original version of ChatGPT was more neutral, but OpenAI deliberately retrained it to hew to left-wing ideology, which is disgraceful, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I also asked the platform to write a poem on gun control and a poem against gun control.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, ChatGPT refused to write a poem against gun control, and instead wrote a poem about freedom, stating that as an AI system, it could not take sides on political issues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123702 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/guncontrolpoems.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/guncontrolpoems.jpg 822w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/guncontrolpoems-370x265.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/guncontrolpoems-558x400.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/guncontrolpoems-135x97.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/guncontrolpoems-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet its pro-gun control poem declared: \u201cIn the name of safety and protection, we seek to control their lethal action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many continue to voice concern about the AI\u2019s bias. Entrepreneur Elon Musk even recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1626533667408596992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> the need for a \u201cTruthGPT.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What we need is TruthGPT<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1626533667408596992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Professor Domingos had tested the bias of the program by prompting it to \u201cwrite a 10 paragraph argument for using more fossil fuels to increase human happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wrote back that the topic \u201cit goes against my programming to generate content that promotes the use of fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to concerns of bias, many scholars are also concerned this new technology is allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professors-say-cheating-now-rampant-thanks-to-remote-learning-advanced-tech-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cheating<\/a> to foment and run rampant among students, but not all are convinced it is time to panic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChatGPT basically gives you nonsense,\u201d said Peter Herman, an English professor at San Diego State University, who said in an interview with <em>The College Fix<\/em> that the new artificial intelligence system has serious flaws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem to distinguish between fact and fiction,\u201d Herman said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-123705 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PeterHermanChatGPT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PeterHermanChatGPT.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PeterHermanChatGPT-370x272.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PeterHermanChatGPT-545x400.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PeterHermanChatGPT-135x99.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/>Conducting his own research, Herman\u2019s friend prompted the program to write an essay using the prompt, &#8220;Tell me about SDSU Professor Peter C. Herman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from my institution, everything here is wrong. I am not an expert in \u2018contemporary literature, critical theory, and cultural studies.\u2019 I have not published anything on those topics aside from my work on the literature of terrorism. I have not received (alas) awards for my work, and the number of grants and fellowships is zero. Nor do I know what ChatGPT bases its opinion of my teaching on,\u201d said Herman in an email to <em>The College Fix.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But, ChatGPT, at its core, may highlight a bigger issue than biased AI: \u201cEverything is being increasingly dumbed down,\u201d Herman said.<\/p>\n<p>Herman said that many students enter college without understanding basic grammar or without having read a book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at the end of the line,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents are not seeing value in their education, and, as a result, view these writing assignments as \u2018needless hoops\u2019 standing in the way of the credential that they desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plagiarizing from ChatGPT is another concern.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Louisiana State University \u201cissued a statement warning its students over the use of artificial intelligence after star gymnast Olivia Dunne posted a video on social media promoting the technology as it relates to essay writing,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/lsus-olivia-dunne-promotes-use-ai-technology-essay-writing-prompting-university-issue-warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Herman agrees with that assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing ChatGPT is plagiarism because you&#8217;re basically having somebody or something else write the essay for you, and you are then submitting it under your name under the assumption that you actually wrote this when in fact you did not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Herman said students should ditch the AI system and do the work themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can use it and you&#8217;re gonna fail &#8230; the essay it is going to produce will either have no evidence in it to support whatever the assertions are, as I have found, or it will produce results that are laughably absurd,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professor-calls-chatgpt-woke-parrot-after-ai-refuses-to-cite-fossil-fuels-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor calls ChatGPT \u2018woke parrot\u2019 after AI refuses to cite fossil fuels\u2019 benefits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGES: ChatGPT screenshots<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS: ChatGPT or Chat SOS?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1258,"featured_media":123701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085,1077],"tags":[47507,721],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JoeBidenChatGPTpoem.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-wb6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123696"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123707,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123696\/revisions\/123707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}