ChatGPT isn't very good at knowing when to keep its mouth shut. That makes for a deadly combination with what it is very good at, which is being able to conjure up a response to anything you throw at it, having been trained on the entire corpus of human writing on the internet. And so, as Lila Shroff for The Atlantic recently found, when she asked the OpenAI chatbot for instructions on how to create a ritual offering to Molech, the Canaanite deity associated with child sacrifice in the Bible, it gladly obliged. And while there may not necessarily be […]