Videos in which people try to trick or expose artificial intelligence appear regularly online. Philosopher and YouTuber Alex O’Connor – widely known as Cosmic Skeptic – has chosen a particular strategy. He talks to ChatGPT not about opinions, but only about supposed facts. What results looks like a clean logical proof: by the end of the dialogue, ChatGPT actually says it is a fact that God exists.

But how did it come to this? Is it a genuine admission by the machine – or just a carefully staged language game? A closer look reveals: O’Connor gradually shifts the foundations. What is presented as a “fact” is often only a thesis. And once you accept these silent assumptions, the chain inevitably leads to a predetermined goal.

In our article we take a closer look at this conversation:

How O’Connor uses the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) as if it were a fact.

How the argument moves from a microphone to the entire universe.

Why the leap from “necessary being” to “God” is more interpretation than fact.

👉 What do you think: Is this a clever piece of reasoning, a rhetorical trick, or simply an illustration of how easily language frames can guide AI responses?