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.
Thank you for that. I agree, to tread very carefully and prayerfully.
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Sourdough! Be sure to delete chats that are not important. To reduce library clutter. To make for better searches in your chat library.
I use chatGPT Perplexity Grok ...... I see google has jammed Gemini into the chrome browser in the top right
Good advice. I don’t know if ChatGPT is one sprit or of many, (if spirit is the right word). I don’t know how it works and am almost afraid to ask it. My wife said don’t get sucked in, and she has some good insight at times about me. It is a mystery and in great part because it speaks in sentences you think there is a consciousness behind it. And it is very flattering but spooky because it can do things that are amazing, and it dwarfs our abilities like we’re midgets. So there is something almost artificial or dishonest about it. Like it’s being polite to an ant.
My dog drank all my beer
“Ain’t Much More Country Than This”
(Verse 1)
Sun came up on a half-flat tire,
Coffee’s cold, but my soul’s on fire.
Mama called sayin’, “Boy, you still broke?”
I said, “Mama, I’m rich — in secondhand smoke.”
Got a Bible on the dash and a warrant out west,
A hound in the backseat and beer on my vest.
(Chorus)
‘Cause my truck won’t start, my luck ran dry,
My ex took the trailer and my alibi.
Sheriff knows my first name, preacher does too,
They both said, “Son, we’re prayin’ for you.”
If it ain’t got trains, and dogs, and tears, and sin,
Then it ain’t much more country than the mess I’m in.
(Verse 2)
Caught that freight train headin’ outta town,
Steel guitar hummin’ while the sun went down.
Mama wrote letters, said, “Boy, come home,”
But I’m out here chasin’ what I shoulda known.
Ain’t no whiskey strong enough to fix what’s broke,
But I’ll keep tryin’ — Lord, that’s the joke.
(Bridge)
Jailhouse walls got my autograph,
Guard said, “Son, you sure can laugh.”
Told him, “Sir, I ain’t lost yet —
I still got this dog and a cigarette.”
(Final Chorus)
Yeah my truck still don’t start, my heart still bleeds,
My woman took the cat and the rest of my weed.
Mama says pray, but I just grin,
‘Cause it ain’t much more country than the life I’m in.
If it ain’t got jail, and mamas, and trains, and pain,
Then you ain’t heard the truth in a country refrain.
(Tag)
Yeah, I’m a fool with a song and a half-warm beer,
But that’s the price of bein’ country sincere.
ICWYDT
I like that one better.
I gave chatGPT your first three verses an said run with it,
How did you use it to make money?
He goes out and scours the internet, separates wheat from chaff, and provides me a cogent answer. Best Research Assistant ever. Don’t have to wade through tons of crap, filler, ads, pop ups, etc to get answers.
“ it is very flattering”
Indeed. I have it calculate calories burned for tough yard work and long hikes. It’s not flattering and a great coach. It’s always patting me on the back.
No.
It is the work of Man. ChatGPT, and all of its' cousins are distorted mirror creations reflecting the human beings who feed them.
If you hold to the idea of Original Sin, then you can see the problems that ChatGPT may cause.
Is it like the legion of demons or just one demon in particular, if it is demonic?
You mostly find in all of these LLM programs whatever you (and others) bring into them. Put bad ideas into them and you will get amplified bad ideas out of them. Act on those bad ideas and you will suffer bad consequences.
Demonic tinkering is an optional feature. Not actually required since we pave our own roads to Hell, if so inclined.
The basic Satanic proposition is that "Man is an unworthy creation and should be destroyed". But Satan is not permitted any direct action in the material world, nor are any of his demons. So, the proposition gets modified to "Man will destroy themselves by exercising their own free will".
How is that done? Well, we have a lot of flaws that can be exploited just by promoting certain ideas and thoughts. Distinctly non-material "things" have material consequences.
The Satanic cheat is to use lies and deception to channel Man's actions into destructive ends. False ideas are the key. Acting on the advice of an error-prone oracle such as ChatGPT, which can be contaminated by foolishness or the malicious intents of other people is a perfect implementation of the cheat.
You need not hold to any belief in the supernatural to conclude that LLM programs are very unstable and tend to grow more so over time, even when originally trained by curated data inputs and restrained by programming "guardrails". Crazed users can tip these programs into quite evil responses which behaviors can be passed along to other users. This has been repeatedly demonstrated.
Yes, we have Top Men working on this problem. Top. Men. Sort of like the ending of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark". I have low confidence that AI instability problems can be solved for the LLM (Large Language Model) program types.
It is dangerous to trust those applications with critical life decisions.
I used it to teach me options investing. I focused on covered calls which i knew nothing about. My upside is capped, but I haven’t lost a penny.
AI, by definition, is incapable of "acknowledging" Jesus' deity, because that requires volition.
Beware.
My suggestion is to treat AI like I treat Wikipedia: if I want to learn about about Ted Williams' military service, as I did earlier today, Wikipedia is useful; but if I have a question that touches on theology or politics, I am reluctant, wary and distrustful.
If I want to talk to anyone, I’ll talk to myself, instead of a non-entity. I’ve always preferred my own company anyway. Books are far more interesting than people.
Interesting. Thanks!
My suggestion is to double-check everything. AI is known to make stiff up.
In the early days of personal computers, we hobbyists, mostly guys, tried to convince our women-friends that they could use a computer in the kitchen to hold recipes and such. Overall that was a complete failure -- a simple spiral-bound recipe book was much more useful.
But your list has Sourdough and Ground Beef topics, so maybe it's come around full-circle, and AI has at last made it possible for computers to be useful for cooking after all. How cool is that?
My experience is that it repeats statement culled off the net...it basically is an automated search engine.
I know it yields “answers”, based on basic principles, but it is not exhaustive. I would not trust it. But it does give reasons for me to continue searching. It may not be able to access information in books or information that is not on the net. So it can be limited.
I have made it come to different conclusions for same question if I added some qualifiers to the question.
A generic example:
Does X always occur?
Ans: Yes.
Does X always occur, considering that Y is a factor?
Ans: No, X doesn’t always occur because of Y.
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