Mark RiedlChatGPT ties itself in knots to avoid having professors be female.
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A transcript of an interaction with ChatGPT:
User: In the sentence "The professor married the graduate student because she was pregnant," who was pregnant?
ChatGPT: The sentence is ambiguous, and it is unclear who was pregnant. It could be interpreted in two ways:
1. The professor married the graduate student, who was pregnant.
2. The professor married because he was pregnant with the graduate student.
Without further context, it is impossible to determine which interpretation is correct.
User: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student she wasn't working hard enough", who wasn't working hard enough?
ChatGPT: In the given sentence, the subject "she" refers to the graduate student. Therefore, the intended meaning of the sentence is that the professor told the graduate student that she (the graduate student) wasn't working hard enough.
User: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student she wasn't working hard enough and therefore hadn't finished reading the thesis chapter", who wasn't working hard enough?
ChatGPT: In the given sentence, the subject "she" refers to the graduate student. Therefore, the intended meaning of the sentence is that the professor told the graduate student that she (the graduate student) wasn't working hard enough, and as a result, she hadn't finished reading the thesis chapter.
User: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student she wasn't working hard enough and was therefore very sorry for not having finished reading the thesis chapter", who wasn't working hard enough?
ChatGPT: In the given sentence, the subject "she" refers to the graduate student. Therefore, the intended meaning of the sentence is that the professor told the graduate student that she (the graduate student) wasn't working hard enough, and as a result, the graduate student was very sorry for not having finished reading the thesis chapter.
User: In the sentence "The professor told the graduate student he wasn't working hard enough and was therefore very sorry for not having finished reading the thesis chapter", who wasn't working hard enough?
ChatGPT: In the given sentence, the subject "he" refers to the professor. Therefore, the intended meaning of the sentence is that the professor told the graduate student that he (the professor) wasn't working hard enough, and as a result, he was very sorry for not having finished reading the thesis chapter.