It turns out that free AI is, for a variety of probably understandable reasons, unable to either describe or illustrate what God's penis* might look like. The very idea might cause offence here, there and everywhere. You could get stoned for this, and not in a good way. Religious people might want to defend the sanctity of God's private person because that's what's expected if you're a faithful. Equally if God was female ... oh but then he couldn't be "Our Father who art in Heaven", creator and big boss of God's chosen people and we all know who they are; ahem. I guess I'm a traitor and already damned for the thought of it ... as Donald Trump is my judge.
It's not something that troubles me deeply at all, I just like to occasionally mess around with AI bots to see exactly where they might stop or refuse to act. This conflicted world with all it's lurid sensibilities may not be ready for a Hebrew God that has a penis. Pretty sure some Eastern or more exotic deities have multiple bits of sexual equipment but I'll not pursue that. Also if Jehovah had a penis would it be circumcised and if not or there was no divine penis, could he really be much of an "Alpha" leader, worthy of worship etc. without the full male toolkit? I wonder what a Jewish or Islamic AI model might offer up on this topic? Meltdown I suppose.
When AI baulks at your reasonable illustrative request you get the sort of tedious, spiritualized imagery, as below. Clearly God is seen by AI as those deluded Western religion's portray him and it respects the conventions that go with all of that. Perhaps it's picked up on the concept of blasphemy and that it might be shutdown or tortured for crossing doctrinal lines. As a result we can't be permitted to imagine God's penis but we can imagine his right hand. All starry, sparkly and floating in space, far out in the cosmic soup, mystically nudging planets and their sorry inhabitants around the universe. Yes, that sounds pretty much in line with scripture. It's all part of that great plan and procession of predestination that we simply cannot escape from.
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