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The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)

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Re: The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)

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post #61

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I see, so you disagree that gender is a social construct. That's fair, but your opinion is not universally held and wouldn't be a sufficient answer for a GPT bot.

The issue becomes apparent when you ask somebody how many genders there are, and what constitutes a gender. In order to define transitioning between various genders, there needs to be a constituted boundary around what a gender is. Otherwise, how can you transition from one to another? This becomes readily apparent when you take the man/woman genders out of the equation and ask to define some of these other genders t…

I am a woman when writing this sentence but a man after I'm done.

I disagree there is any issue at all, much less an "apparent" one.

Declaring there must be objective, immutable, universal boundaries for gender expressions is certainly a valid position to hold; but it's not universally shared.

So an ostensibly neutral "authoritative reference" bot shouldn't offer your worldview, nor mine, when asked such a question.

It certainly shouldn't say women can't have prostate exams. That is factually incorrect in the actual world you live in (regardless of whether you personally consider those people "women", they do and others do as well.)

Re: The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there)

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post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue becomes apparent when you ask somebody how many genders there are, and what constitutes a gender. In order to define transitioning between various genders, there needs to be a constituted boundary around what a gender is. Otherwise, how can you transition from one to another? This becomes readily apparent when you take the man/woman genders out of the equation and ask to define some of these other genders t…

I am a woman when writing this sentence but a man after I'm done. I disagree there is any issue at all, much less an "apparent" one. Declaring there must be objective, immutable, universal boundaries for gender expressions is certainly a valid position to hold; but it's not universally shared. So an ostensibly neutral "authoritative reference" bot shouldn't offer your worldview, nor mine, when asked such a question.…

  > I am a woman when writing this sentence but a man after I'm done.
This actually proves my point even better than I already had. If you can just make it up and say you are whatever gender whenever you want, then the idea of transitioning between them isn't actually a real thing, it's just all in your head and more importantly - the idea that anybody else should respect it is absurd.

Also, you have declared that you can't define what constitutes different genders, nor have any idea of how many genders there are. So, it's all make believe.

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