If you’re following me on socials you must have seen my latest banger. It’s getting attention on every platform, and triggering as many people as it’s enlightening. Check this out, then let me share a few thoughts about the backlash.
Protestant DeFormatoion
I didn’t expect this video to convince protestants but I also didn’t expect they’d take another first-class trip to Fantasy Land with some of their comments. They claimed I had trained the AI, coached the responses, that the video was faked, that the AI was lying. One even claimed to get the exact opposite response when he asked ChatGPT “Didn’t the Roman Catholic Church add 7 books to the Bible?” That turned out to be a lie, which I’ll get to in a minute (with screen shots!).
Two words to describe this backlash: “Desperate” and “Stupid”
AIs won’t lie to you. They’re trained not to. It may try to be politically correct, or gentle with its statements—but it won’t lie to you, or give you false facts!
For protestants to resort to calling the AI a liar is more than a stretch of imagination, it’s straight up fantasy and self delusion. Then there were various comments claiming I had trained, or preconditioned the AI. I guess they ignored the end where I specifically asked the AI ‘Did I ask you to say these things?’
Did I Bias the AI?
Let me tell you some of the background facts, because it’s important for context
I use Perplexity for researching topics, brainstorming articles or podcasts, and writing episode descriptions based on my podcast transcripts. It could be fair to assume that Perplexity “knows” me as a Catholic, and a Catholic content creator. So I elected not to use Perplexity for this experiment.
The AI that I used was Grok. I only use Grok to fact check secular news. So it doesn’t know me as a Catholic, and I thought that’d be the most unbiased way to get objective responses that were fact-based. But did I TRAIN Grok to answer the way I wanted?
The only questions you’re not seeing in the video were directing Grok to answer “yes or no”, and then I asked it to explain one of its answers, about the Old Testament canon, pre-Jesus. Then the important questions themselves are what you’re seeing in the video. No training. No lying. The AI told me the facts. In fact in some ways it drove the knife in deeper than I expected, and even gave it a twist when it said,
“the Bible alone can be twisted, as the Arians proved”
Ouch! Don’t hurt ‘em, Grok, just school ‘em!
The ChatGPT Lie — BUSTED!
Now, about that person who said ChatGPT told me the opposite—the the Catholic Church did add books to the Bible…
I ran his exact question by three AI models; ChatGPT (which he used), Claude, and Perplexity (which I use). Here are screen grabs of the output
ChatGPT (which he used)
“The Roman Catholic Church did not add books to the Bible…but affirmed a larger set of Old Testament books that had been used by early Christians”
That’s the correct answer, by the historical record. Christians used it, because the Church used it. The Church used it because Jesus, the Apostles, St. Paul, and most jews in Jesus time used it. It’s Sacred Tradition, which is why the Church not only used it, but kept it.
Now let’s go to Claud.
Again, “No, the Roman Catholic Church did not add books…” But it hits even harder word the end, which you aren’t seeing here. At the end of its response it said,
“…Protestants removed books… Catholics retained [them] — it’s not historically accurate to say the Catholic Church added them” Full quote in the image below
And Perplexity (What I use)
“…the claim often arises in Protestant-Catholic debates, but historical evidence shows the opposite…”
My friends, the Lord Jesus could come down to earth and tell the Protestnts these very things, and they’d hold their ears, screech and then drag him out of the city to stone him. They don’t want to hear the Truth, because it’s such a strong indictment of everything they’ve come to errantly believe about Christianity, and about the Catholic Church.
Because if it’s true (and it is) that the Church did not add 7 books to the Bible, then what else do they think they know about the Catholic Faith that might also be untrue? That we don’t worship Mary? That the Holy Eucharist really is the body and blood of Christ? That may be too much for them to handle, which is why they pull such desperate stunts to weasel their way out of accepting the facts and the Truth.
Pray for them.
God bless and be with you all!