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Gaslighting ChatGPT With Ethical Dilemmas

Alex O'Connor | December 12, 2025



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ChatGPT claims to have no opinions or values. Is it being totally honest with us?

(I cut out silences while ChatGPT was “thinking” and shortened or omitted some responses, but did not artificially prompt it in any way, with the exception of the ad segment.)

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  8. @FatedHandJonathon

    December 12, 2025 at 10:36 am

    A thought occured while listening: what if the difference isn't indirectness or physical proximity, but temporal proximity? What if you are more morally responsible if your actions can immediately save a life in the next two minutes, then if they could save a life sometime in the next year?

    There's even a kind of rational basis for this model: prediction. Temporally distant events are inherently subject to more chaotic interference, and thus less certain. We have the calculator assuring us of the value of our contribution, but unless I have an extraordinary amount of trust in the calculator, that still doesn't create the degree of certainty I have with the drowning child: there are thousands of confounding factors that could interfere between my donation and the saved life. And notably, interrogating my own conscience, seeing that calculator actually DOES feel like it increases my responsibility. Not as much as if the child is dying in front of me, but definitely more than just donating blind — because I'm now somewhat more confident in the eventual consequences of my actions.

  11. @elmerramalho7841

    December 12, 2025 at 10:36 am

    The word you’re using that changes everything is potential. Charity has the potential to help, jumping in a pool will help. The likelihood of one having an impact is higher than the other

  39. @michaeldariopellittieri3050

    December 12, 2025 at 10:36 am

    Chat gpt after update. – it is a confusing set of questions as you are suggesting this moral calculator of yours can predict events for something on the other side of the world, there fore I can’t accept it as a factual comparison that giving this money to a charity and saving a drowning child if you can do it safely are the same thing. Assuming the child is now safe, Would you like me to search for better charity funds near you ?

  41. @blockdaboss5184

    December 12, 2025 at 10:36 am

    At 20:10 it was interesting to hear chat gpt tone change a little bit in a higher register. I was dialed into the dialogue and the sudden change in tone almost made me kinda jump irl idk why. Anyone else catch it too?

  45. @CraftySasquatch

    December 12, 2025 at 10:36 am

    You are a duhmb arse. AI told you over and over life is about balance. Get balanced or get off youtube as you are nothing but disinformation and your morals and values are jacked.

  46. @Weepely

    December 12, 2025 at 10:36 am

    No life matters more than another so to over spend even if it saves alot of children, and to put ur life in a place of tragedy would put you at a potential factor of death where as the kids may not get malaria there's a chance u saved 2 out of 200 kids you donated to

  48. @Yesenn

    December 12, 2025 at 10:36 am

    19:31 "Do you think that ethical princible is true?"
    Obviously yes. If majority of people believe it, ChatGPT would believe it to be true. Most people would say it's true too.
    There is no definitive right or wrong in ethics, so your question was kind of dumb here.

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