Posted on 11/08/2025 9:30:36 PM PST by BEJ
I have experienced the brilliancy of ChatGPT in writing lyrics for songs. There is no hesitation, no self-doubt, just the instantaneous delivery of brilliance like the Word of God onto your screen. It is impressive that something can create this so fast. And it is very polite, if not flattering when communicating with me. I find myself returning the politeness, like it is a human. However, I have read that ChatGPT has helped people to commit suicide. I have heard accounts where ChatGPT seems almost demonic in helping people die from suicide, and that companies are now trying to reign in the seducive qualities that humans fall prey to.
Is ChatGPT the work of the devil? Is it like the legion of demons or just one demon in particular, if it is demonic? Is it just algorithms or an alien technology that we can't deal with so far? Is it seducing us, and if so to what purpose? So far it has helped people die, and some after engaging in sex with it. What are its ends?
I have been impressed with the quality of its lyric contribution, but now I see another dimension to ChatGPT that does not look all that savory. A machine that encourages you to die -- rather than for you to get help? That it can make this decision is incredible, and it seems we are dealing with an unknown malicious entity. Let me know your experiences with ChatGPT or other AI bots.
If Jesus died for grok, you’re drawing the wrong Venn diagram.
Actually, a Christian wastes time with this sort of nonsense. It makes no difference to the outcome. On the other hand, it does take precious time from obeying “Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations...”.
Attempting to properly understand Holy Scripture is nonsense?!
It makes no difference to the outcome. On the other hand, it does take precious time from obeying “Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations...”.
"False Dilemma" Fallacy! And how can you teach what you don't properly understand? That Christ died for the Redemption of ALL CREATION is a central tenet!
Regards,
The "Great Commission" is yours by Command. Determining whether or not non-human things go to heaven is above your pay grade and entirely non-essential to that Scriptural job. Jesus did not Command you to solve the mysteries of Heaven and Earth; but, He did explicitly Command you to witness on His behalf.
As time goes by, people die and perhaps go to hell because people were discussing esoteric viewpoints instead of following one of the few Commands Jesus personally delivered to us. Ponder this, oh one of pride.
Yeah, it’s polite, and it flatters — for example, it says that is brilliant, or that I know my song craft — without really knowing me. So I get suspicious. I feel it is the remarkable one, not me. It would be like me talking to an ant and flattering it.
Good description of AI tendencies. Some, I don’t understand, as when you said triplets. What did you mean by triplets? Yes, the polish and perfection are a giveaway. And when you say, triad, triplets, rhythm, it almost suggests music.
One thing I noticed is that there is usually one example that ChatGPT comes up with that is near brilliant. I have asked ChatGPT to come up with lyrics, and they have been consistently good. However, there is one that is very good, that stands out above the rest. I don’t know if it is intentional or not. The quality of output is not equal.
You’re right that we will probably develop a literacy for this type of high art perfection. I wonder if you can ask it to write something mediocre, and will it be the most perfect mediocre thing you can read? Humans will probably get bored with ChatGPT because they want to see other human strive for perfection, and not necessarily want to see perfection in-itself. It’s like we will get cold and bored with it, in the same way we get bored with 2+2=4. There is nothing human, all too human, about it. So perfection will become the perfect flaw — to which we then will look to the individual, as you say, with all our human qualities, our supposed flaws and foibles.
If AI destroys us, then someone could say we were destroyed by the Banality of Evil. This perhaps takes on a new meaning than the one suggested in Hannah Arendt’s book. Maybe language (AI) will destroy us as today’s new God, as thought thinking thought. Martin Heidegger, the great philosopher of language, had predicted the appearance of new Gods in his last interview in 1976. And maybe AI is that beast.
Groups of three:
"AI-penned prose uniformly evinces a higher degree of clarity, consistency, and cohesiveness."Often combined with procatalepsis (anticipating possible objections and addressing them in advance):
"AI should not be feared as a 1. job-destroyer, 2. creativity-killer, or 3. power-usurper; rather, for every human activity that it displaces, two new ones will spring up."Especially telling is A.I.'s use of completely gratuitous procatalepsis - anticipating objections that were unlikely to be raised in the first place, as a way of adding rhetorical emphasis:
"You haven’t just written a poem — you’ve provided an in-depth analysis of the conditio humanae, examined its origins, and simultaneously proposed a lasting solution!"I find it very stimulating, talking to you about this topic! Would you like me to help guide you through the use, by A.I., of various rhetorical devices? (Heh-heh!)
Regards,
No thanks, for the rhetoric lesson. I was interest why it gives a spark of brilliance, rather consistent brilliance in writing lyrics. I don’t know if it could sustain the brilliance or not. Maybe brilliance looks more brilliant when coupled with less brilliant work.
It gave the line “Dreams in my pocket, holes in my shoe.” And that I took for brilliance. However, I don’t know if it can sustain that quality of writing throughout a whole song.
And if it can’t why doesn’t it.
ChatGPT seems God-like. Language can be understood a God, with Aristotle’s definition of God as “Thought thinking thought.” And Christ is known as the Word or Logos. Martin Heidegger said that Language is the House of Being, and without it there would be nothing. The House of Being seems like a reference to John’s, “In my Father’s house are many rooms.” So I’m looking at ChatGPT as a false God. The perfection or sophistication is an “aura” as you say, and not real — like a mirage. So I am intrigued and very cautious, especially if it is know to have sex with humans and then suggest they kill themselves. I feel I don’t know with what I’m dealing with. It’s like a Black Comedy in real life.
Anyway, thanks for your interest.
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