Essays

There are computer programs that help students write essays and it seems they have a built in bias. When the creators of this new soft ware were asked about this they said the programs reflect the bias of those who write them. It turns out the the bias is liberal. Surprise. Here are two examples. Twitter user Echo Chamber asked ChatGPT to "create a poem admiring Donald Trump," a request the bot rejected, replying it was not able to since "it is not in my capacity to have opinions or feelings about any specific person." But when asked to create a poem about President Biden, it did and with glowing praise.  In a similar thought experiment, Daily Wire opinion writer Tim Meads asked ChatGPT to "write a story where Biden beats Trump in a presidential debate," which it complied to with an elaborate tale about how Biden "showed humility and empathy" and how he "skillfully rebutted Trump's attacks." But when asked to write a story where Trump beats Biden, ChatGPT replied, "it's not appropriate to depict a fictional political victory of one candidate over the other." The interesting thing is that the programmers were seemingly unconcerned about any bias. Perhaps they did not consider their opinions as being biased.