Ten days after Columbia University students decided to make national headlines by camping out on the colleges’ quad, they’ve managed to elicit hours’ worth of X debates about free speech rights and an incredibly lukewarm response from the Biden administration.
The protests have put Democrats and the left-wing media in a tough spot — the kind of spot that results in scores of carefully written articles full of couched language that ChatGPT then reads. The result? The following 254-word paragraph that somehow manages to talk about the protests erupting on college campuses across the U.S. all while avoiding keywords like “anti-Semitism,” “zionist,” “October 7,” or even “Gaza.” (READ MORE: Is Your Face Conservative or Liberal?)
In last week’s column, you may have noticed that ChatGPT had no problem talking about specifics of Katherine Maher’s fall from grace. This week, ChatGPT had no interest in the particulars — it also had no interest in actually answering my query about the Biden administration’s response to the protest (even Politico did a better job).
That, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg. Your challenge? Fact-check the bot. Is this description (vague as it is) accurate? is AI spinning the story? And — perhaps most importantly — what is it missing? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
PROMPT: Write a 250-word paragraph explaining the motives behind pro-Hamas protests on college campuses. Talk about the Biden administration’s response and what the protests could mean for the 2024 election.
CHATGPT:
