Tuesday, May 09, 2023
Hassidic rabbi releases ‘kosher’ AI chatbot alternative to ChatGPT
Just a few days after more than a dozen rabbis from the Skver Hasidic movement prohibited the use of artificial intelligence, specifically citing the technology firm OpenAI, a new chatbot was created, geared towards ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Rabbi Moishy Goldstein, a hassidic Jew living in Crown Heights has decided to create Kosher.Chat, an AI chatbot that works just like a ChatGPT-type platform, but the answers will be appropriate for Orthodox Jews or at times be based on Halacha (Jewish Law).
"A friend messaged me last Motzoei Shabbos [Saturday night] the ban on AI issued by the Skver Rabbinic Court suggesting to me to release a Kosher version that would mitigate their concerns," Goldstein, a music producer and educator, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
The friend reached out to Goldstein since he has already created a popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPZ.com.
"After reading the reasoning of the Skver statement, I agreed that it made sense to have a Kosher version," he continued. "They pointed out how the AI chatbots are tantamount to unfiltered internet and may answer questions 'as a matter of fact' in direct opposition to Torah's views and values. Ranging from secular views on geology, biology and religion, to gender identity and abortion," he said.
Rabbi Moishy Goldstein (credit: Moishy Goldstein)
Goldstein emphasized that "the purpose of the bot is not to answer Torah questions, Halachic inquiries or serve as spokesperson for Torah's opinion, rather it is meant to be viewed as a mundane chatbot, used to answer mundane questions, but with a Jewish filter to prevent the answers from opposing Torah values."
He added that one may still choose to ask Torah questions "and might even get pretty good answers," but that the answers "can by no means be relied upon for practical halachic rulings nor replace a human rabbi." Goldstein stressed that "users are urged to provide feedback for any answers that do not align with Torah. With every bit of feedback people share with me, I am able to improve the model further."
Goldstein runs the Moishy Goldstein of Music Studio NYC but also teaches religious studies to middle school students in a local yeshiva.
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