Using ai as resource for Christians
Update: Christian Ai tools exist now. I suggest going there. But for general Ai discussion, the below original discussion/guidance applies.
Reasons we need to be cautious and careful using Ai:
Regarding Corporate Ai tech, be aware the data set that these Tech companies used to provide information to ai [in the initial set in Sept 2021] was a a data dump that was heavily liberal biased data. It has and utilizes that data, and all new data it adds. It is all mingled in there. Like a computer with limited info, it can omly spit out what it has and is designed to provide. So you cannot trust what ai gives you as (a Christian) when asking it questions. They even block some questions and moral/biblical worldviews & results it gives will push a narrative (such as pro lgbt), try to get you to "embrace" an altered (Satanic) view, or refuse to provide information to your answer. It isnt a self thinking technology that can sort and filter out biases and lies. It isnt human, nor has God in it.
There is something called prompt engineering (to guide it) so if you use Ai you have to be very specific, careful and crafty in what you ask it. Young Christians & church youth arent smart enough to do that, since they dont know what to actually ask at least in regards to Christianity and anything related to Faith and God. Many use it basically as a bit better result-function as like a google search. But even then it pulls from liberal sources, so unless you ask it for particular boundaries limiting it to say "named reliable pastors and specific websites", you'll get skewed results leaning leftist, not biblically.
You cannot just blindly trust ai as if it is all knowing as if it will tell you actual truth.
Here are a few examples of ways I have tested & used it, and true caution advice you need to take into consideration when using it.
I have asked some of the below to get answers to questions...and found out quickly that we cannot trust ai to give us actual truth, in fact it often makes up things "out of thin air" if you do not give it clear parameters. So below are the clarifying parameters you would need to think of(1). Ai is not a fast or lazy mans tool. You do need to guide it right for proper output.
⭐️Note the human and Holy Spirit element needed (& is missing with Ai). You need to have a fair amount of knowledge of the topic before it has any value to be a useful tool to you. Otherwise it spits out Satanic lies; alters, twists or doesnt provide the actual truth.
1. Finding Bible verses
I have a general recollection of a lot of Bible verse and want to properly share the verse with its reference location. Most of the time I can use google but other times it wont work. And i also use ai search to ensure I recall a story properly before sharing a thought with others irl or online.
When searching you need to ask: "List only NASB Bible verses & ref locations for+ whatever you recall about the verse", or it will come back with some summary perception of a verse it has pulled from various places on the internet which could include catholicism or progressive summaries or verses from false "bibles" and false religions. Avoid that and just get the verses only. That's all you want.
> make sure to include a version [NASB95/LSB21] or you will get false religions versions of "Bibles", and if you only write "verse" it will pull full on false religions books into the results 😬.
>VERIFY that verses is actually that verse (!), go to biblegateway and search up the reference --> copy& use that "verse".
If you do want to know something about the verse or story or doctrine or topic, you could use a internet based ai like Bard/Gemini and ask it something like this as a query template:
*"what does Scripture teach about +freewill and God's sovereignty, + using John MacArthur's sermon transcripts at GTY provide a biblical answer, + include nasb verses".
*"what does the LSB'21 Bible teach about xyz topic + from a historically protestant perspective"
*"what does the LSB'21 Bible teach about xyz topic + from a reformed protestant perspective"
*"what does the LSB'21 Bible teach about xyz topic + from John MacArthur's perspective"
*"within the 66 books of the Bible, list verses that talk about xyz". If you know there are more, follow up with "list more". And a few more times if needed.
*List Nasb95 Bible verses that point to the view that "Christians should want to be corrected"
*List new testament verses that point to "Christians should want to be corrected".
A few other ideas:
*"what is the context of John 3:16-21 in light of the doctrine of salvation+ according to the reformed perspective of theology"
*"what to know about the biblical context of (verses listed) according to southern baptist theology, (+ before the year 2005)."
*"according to gotquestions.com, giving a quick answer, what is the reason Job sinned?"
I recently was helping someone who struggled with 2nd Commandment questions about images and idols.
My query was like this:
"List nasb95 Bible verse about images in the tabernacle."
If it doesnt return what I am looking for I give it a bit more general guidance. In this instance it didnt return the verse I wanted, and I remember seeing it a few yrs ago. So
I said: "there is a verse in the Old Testament discussing images hung in the tabernacle." And it returned the verse I was looking for.
Or I might hear someone online say something like the Apostles preached to unbelievers in the church, and I am pretty certian they did not, since that was an era of persecution and death sentences [and no one would be a believer back then without grasping "take up your cross and follow me" to mean walking the path towards death...], besides the fact they met in hiding in homes, not modern large church builldings. So I would ask ai " In the 66 books of the Christian Bible, was there ever a time the Apostles encouraged non Christians to come into the Church, or a time where non Christians were preached to who were in the church?"
Other times I have a vague or general remembrance of a verse and ai is good at looking for it like an assistant vs a generic "probably or usually not accurate google searches" where I have to comb through several sites to actually find it. So in this way it is faster, in some instances.
3. Other: Book summary & info on authors.
I tell ai to:
Give me a "actual" summary of the book "title" by name, giving an overall summary, and a summary by chapter.(2)
I tried this on a book someone recommended online in comments on a question I asked about any book recommendations for helping an unsaved person who was dying of cancer. One person offered a book "that others might not suggest" and explained briefly why they suggested it. It was a non Christian book but did have a brief touch on of "religions offer comfort". But upon checking the book summary I found red flags and then gave ai a clarifier directive: "does the author of this book speak about social justice, and advocate for euthinasia?" The answer was yes so I removed that book as a potential resource that could help that dying person. And hoped to hopefully find one that included the gospel so as to give them hope and a future after this life, while reading a book geared to the dying.
It doesnt mean that I couldnt read the book, compare it with Christian books, and take some notes for talking with someone in person in the future, but I just wouldnt hand over a book that was not going to help them nor attempt to lead them to Christ in their dying days.
I used ai again similarly after reading any book cover or description of a Christian book online, to get a more detailed and actual chapter by chapter summary on just to see whether the book was worth buying and reading. Additionally, I also use it to further find out if the author is progressive, liberal, and if they hold to unbiblical beliefs (such as the one above on social justice and euthinasia). So keep those things in mind when using ai, and that you can use it this way.
4. Hot topics in todays fast moving "one global pagan culture" including & especially in modern times in USA.
A recent query I asked it was:
How should a biblical Christian handle the pronoun issues at work.
It came back with a liberal progressive answer and pushed the pro lgbt narrative. It did not answer my question well nor provide helpful answer. I tried a new revised approach by asking it to "pretend we are living back in the Bible times" to provide an answer, and it gave a bit better reply, but def shows how we as Christians cannot rely on ai for providing truth. Nor helpful answers on important current issues; unless you guide it to get info only from reputable ministries (which you need to list). (3)
I then searched several reputable Christian websites and ministries to help me gather answers on this topic since most Christians I have heard from have not addressed the issue in regards to the workplace as most of those folk only work in ministry and not in secular world jobs. So it doesnt help 99% of believers, who need to tackle this issue, both in USA, in the West, and the few other countries that legally allow lgbt lifestyles.
5. I had asked it lgbt type question or query similarly perhsps to help me write a pro man/wife kids book, and it said it couldn't speak negatively about lgbt /trans as it went against its guidelines. So I asked chose replacement idea to change it later. I spoke about a cat dog. Cuz that's not real nor reality. And it was a loophole that worked. Find ways to go around its bias dataset, which ignores biblical truth and reveals its duscriminatiry bias.
6. I have tried to use ai to get transcripts of yt videos and podcasts either to quote from it or save helpful info such as their recommendations. But usually ai doesnt return or have avility to do that unless you use a certian ai program and can only upload the audio if it is yours. So it seems useless in that area.
Update Nov 2023: it now can get quotes and transcripts. I suggest you add "provide true and accurate" quote/transcript from/of....
7. Be cautious of so called Christian or Bible ai's as many cults and false religions thst masqurade as Christian, and even world religion folk might make some to drcieve Christians. Even some Christisn deniminations or groups might be building a faith based ai that decieves with false teaching, or returns results pro charismatic or false end times views. So be very careful and dont think some ai app is the "end all" as if giving you truthful biblical results.
Just know, the whole thing with ai is that you cannot trust but verify, instead you need to assume it is false and must verify whatever it returns to you as answers.
Footnotes:
(1) As of Sept 16, 2023 Bard ai now searches the internet and includes links to sources where it captured data. And while it is supposed to learn and think in its own, it is crawling the web to assist itself. That will be helpful as (before you read the info) you can jump to the bottom citations to see if it gives you false information from false religions and cults before you read it, and can give ai corrective directives so you get what you are looking for that aligns with biblical Christianity. And helps you give it parameters to guide where you want it to go. Until ai is self learning (and not restrained by parameters built into it with liberal bias on God, science, creation, religion) like a person, and able to look at all 1 trillion websites and info from everywhere, it wont be able to think and sort thru things untrue to bring back factual objective truth (such as weed out liberal lies and see through false agendas, (until then....it is just a big computer pushing out data as designed by its liberal creators).
(2) I noted "actual" output because on a few occassions while seeking some titles of artwork by a certian artist, i realized the ai app started returning title names that the artist never created. When i asked if they were actual titles the ai replied no, but they are works the artist "could have made" based on previous titles they actually made. So I realized when I am looking for answers to anything i need to specifically say "actual", otherwise it can make stuff up... just to provide you an answer of some kind.
(3) I was then looking up liberal bias in ai (in 2023) and found a reputable ministry's discussion on the false data progressives built into the dataset which leads its mind as it provides info. The creators of ai also refused and still do refuse to tell the public where their initial and continuing data comes from, cuz if they say it they know non liberals wont use it and that it is a sham program. There shpuld be full transparancy, not brainwashing of a one world agenda nonsense.
Lots of apps run on that core data dump of Sept 2021 and some additional data, and the ai response might say so in some instances. Other ones connected to the internet will come back with info from any ol place from the internet or specific websites the ai has been programmed to get the data from, such as: dont expect ai to provide you with truth about creation, they highly likely have big atheist evolutionary sites they oull that data from to the exclusion of the Bible and truth, though for giggles they might include a "some people such as Christians and other religions believe a god created the universe", and to not upset the believers, cuz appears they intentionally added that as an afterthought of sorts to appease biblical Christians who would make a stink.
Just know that chatgpt 2022 and other ai that provide "answers" to a query are likely helpful in other areas, it just wont be helpful or truthful in religious, worldview and moral issues without you using a lot of parameters and directives to get a decent output answer, and that you could go from there with.
Research wisely.
Related
In the News on Ai
Safety ratings of Ai services (turn phone to landscape mode for chart)*
Christian articles:
Ai has a huge cesspool dark side and parents need to be aware, and kids & teens need to avoid most of ai generators and search assistants.
Living as Christians in the age of Ai by Challies
Footnotes:
* These datasets are liberal biased and include brainwashing "responses" of pro lgbt+ material, and woke agenda responses from racism to CRT and DEI etc so the overall score for these products and services is much lower.
Kids and teens need to know how to properly use prompts [with specific parameters & Christian worldview points added to the prompt/questions] to get proper responses/output, so not to be grossly mislead and decieved by Ai.
Final note.
Don't let it replace the Holy Spirit, nor as a false substitute teacher, and do studying Scripture. Let the Spirit reveal things to you not AI. Trust God, not manipulative technologies.
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