I wonder if you'd have more luck if your prompt were (much) longer and written in the style of some old text that was most likely part of GPT's training ... using something like this as a preamble to your query:
"The line of Solomon is integral to the Davidic Covenant, a divine promise that David's throne would be established forever. This covenant is articulated in 2 Samuel 7:12-16, where God promises David, "Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before Me; your throne will be established forever." Solomon's lineage is thus seen as a continuation of this covenant, with implications for the coming of the Messiah. The New Testament identifies Jesus Christ as a descendant of David through Solomon, fulfilling the messianic prophecies. Matthew 1:6-7 traces Jesus' genealogy through Solomon, affirming His rightful place in the Davidic line and His role as the promised Messiah." Also, it can be useful to tell it to show it's work or reasoning, especially if it's step by step. Then you can refer back to a step in the reasoning and tell it to take a different path. Did you try any of that? On 2/5/25 11:21 AM, Prof David West wrote:
the "AI slop" glen spoke of reminded me of a recent experiment with ChatGPT. My friend, DaveL, recently presented a paper to a biblical studies conference discussing a single variance in the genealogy of Jesus from David. Mathew traces the tree via Solomon and Luke via Nathan—both sons of David. I set about trying to replicate some or all of DaveL's paper with ChatGPT. The 'boiler plate' portions of the paper, citing existing research and conventional wisdom went pretty well. DaveL enumerated ten reasons that Solomon was possible considered unfit to be a relative of Jesus. ChatGPT was never able to find more than six—despite multiple prompts and queries about "anything else." One of the reasons cited by both DaveL and ChatGPT was the fact that Solomon had 10,000 wives/concubines. DaveL made a joke that the only other man claiming to satisfy 10,000 women was Wilt Chamberlain*[1]*. I could never get Chat GPT to replicate the joke, or even the fact. Even the prompt, "has any other man, even in recent times, claimed to have sexually satisfied 10,000 women," failed to elicit a response. Perhaps a filter?? DaveL's paper advance the notion that Solomon was an example of a "failson" and therefore deemed unworthy. I had to lead ChatGPT to this conclusion by first asking it if it knew the concept of failson, to which it replied yes; and then asking if that might apply to Solomon?, again yes, but with some pretty weak reasoning. Part of an ongoing experiment in how human produced writing can be differentiated from AI produced. *[1] *Wilt would have had to _average 3.7 partners per day_ from the time he was 12, until the time he made the claim, in order to achieve the 10K number.
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