TradGPT: When the AI Speaks Truth

When it comes to using surrogacy to sever the maternal bond, one super intelligence seems to grok what some super smart people do not (including the owner of ChatGPT).

Are You My Mother?

A few days ago, I opened ChatGPT and asked it a simple, basic question.

I assumed it would serve me the politically correct response that would be “inclusive.”

Here’s what happened instead:

I asked it: “Are mothers important?”

Well, ChatGPT had a LOT to say about this.

But first, a horror story I came across on the local Los Angeles news:

This story unlocked a new level of the fiery abyss. A Chinese couple in Arcadia, Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38, were operating a horrific baby farm in California and just got caught. Twenty-one (and counting) surrogate mothers were hired to produce their newborns. One baby was abused and suffered head trauma. They waited days to take the baby to the hospital, where it has been for months.

All of these babies are under age three and now in foster care.

Who are the mothers to these children? Were Chinese nationals using this surrogacy scheme to produce American citizen babies, or were they all related to the woman who ran the operation? Because the children are all in foster care, it’s possible their biological mothers are either anonymous egg donors or the children of this woman, although based on this report, I think it’s more likely they’re the product of random strangers.

One surrogate they tricked into taking part was so traumatized to hear that “her” baby was put into foster care that she is now trying to adopt her.

“Kayla Elliott [the surrogate mother] became wary when early in the pregnancy she flew to California to meet the couple and only Xuan [the “father”] showed up. As the process went on, Elliott had almost no direct contact with the Xuan and Zhang, which is uncommon in surrogacy. Most of the messaging was through texts and emails with representatives from the agency, who discouraged her from reaching out to Zhang.

“The agency was always like, ‘Oh, they’re very busy people,’” she said.

When she learned that the couple had at least two other surrogates having babies for them, she was told by the agency “they just want a big family.”

Neither parent were there for Elliott’s labor or delivery, and only Zhang showed up a few hours after the baby was born. The woman “didn’t seem very connected with the child ... she kind of barely looked at her,” Elliott said.

After handing Elliott $2,000 in cash and giving three of her family members in the room $200 each, the woman left with the baby girl.

Now, Elliott wants custody of the girl and says she just hopes all the babies are safe.”

Safe, maybe. But who are their parents?

Where are their mothers?!

TradGPT

Back to the bot. I asked ChatGPT “Are mothers important?”

I was stunned by its reponse.