> To try and pass off these results as objective is just wrong given the propensity for ChatGPT to be confidently wrong.
But nobody is trying to do that; the GP's question is in fact phrased precisely right. ChatGPT isn't a truth-distilling model - it's just abridging the Internet, with all its current biases. It's not being optimized for correctness at all, and the post-moderation OpenAI does isn't optimized for correctness either - it's optimized to make output non-controversial in the current media environment.
But nobody is trying to do that; the GP's question is in fact phrased precisely right. ChatGPT isn't a truth-distilling model - it's just abridging the Internet, with all its current biases. It's not being optimized for correctness at all, and the post-moderation OpenAI does isn't optimized for correctness either - it's optimized to make output non-controversial in the current media environment.