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Re:The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there) by yucky on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @10:53AM (#35169231)
Would we advise women to get a prostate exam after 40?
Re:The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there) by kthejoker2 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:05AM (#35181368)
Some women, yes. (The ones with prostates, obviously.)

What's your next question?

Re:The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there) by yucky on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:23AM (#35183184)
Women don't have prostates.

If a man dresses like a woman and thinks he's a woman, that is a mental condition that deserves treatment and that person deserves to be treated humanely like the rest of us, but it doesn't turn them into a woman.

Re:The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there) by kthejoker2 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:11PM (#35188710)
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.
Re:The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there) by yucky on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:24PM (#35188881)
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 that supposedly exist and how people transition between them. There is no logic to it. Try it yourself.

Re:The Political Biases of GPT-4 (are very much still there) by kthejoker2 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @01:47AM (#35206484)
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) by yucky on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:06AM (#35209680)

  > 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.