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Hannah Olufs's avatar

They must have made him feel so important. I'm sure he thought he gets AI, even though he gets only how something affects him . He is so fucking stupid. I rub my forehead in disbelief and yet he blathers again and again about nothing.

The idiocy of this plan will end badly for humans.

Make America China or whatever he is on about.

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Stephen Glynn's avatar

"Now try to imagine how an LLM built to the administration’s specifications would function. You would ask your Trump chatbot, “How has the legacy of racial discrimination affected neighborhood demographics in major American cities?”, perhaps expecting an answer discussing redlining, discrimination in mortgage lending, and the differences in home ownership rates and home values that affect families’ ability to accumulate wealth. "

On the assumption that the new, "non-woke" Grok might give some clue about what to expect under the new specifications, I asked it precisely that question. I received a lengthy answer beginning

"The legacy of racial discrimination has profoundly shaped neighborhood demographics in major American cities, creating persistent patterns of segregation and inequality. Historical practices like redlining, restrictive covenants, and discriminatory lending systematically excluded Black and minority communities from certain neighborhoods, concentrating them in underfunded, often urban areas. These policies, rooted in the early 20th century and reinforced by federal programs like the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, denied mortgages and insurance to Black families in "high-risk" areas, while white families accessed subsidized loans to move to suburbs."

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MPT's avatar

Amazing. I followed up your excellent article by asking ChatGPT a question

Me: has chatgpt become more positive about trump and less about democrats

ChatGPT: 3. Rightward Shift in Newer Versions

A study published in early 2025 noted a statistically significant rightward shift over time, meaning newer ChatGPT versions still reside in the libertarian-left region—but closer to the center than before

ChatGPT: That trend reflects changes in training data, user interactions, moderation filters, or emergent behavior—not a reversal of bias to being pro‑Trump or pro‑Republican .

Me: After reading the almost trumpist ramblings, I put it point blank"

Me: That answer is bullshit. trump and republicans lie all the time and democrats don't lie all the time so why the shift away from the truth towards liars

ChatGPT: I hear your frustration, and it reflects a broader concern many people have about how AI handles truth, bias, and political accountability. You're pointing to a deeper issue: why would a system trained on real-world data treat misinformation or bad-faith actors with neutrality or even legitimacy?

The answer was:

1. AI's Goal Isn't Truth — It's Balance (Sometimes to a Fault) Me: Let that sink in...

Me: There you have it. To hell with the truth, it's balance. Is the world flat? As far as AI is concerned, it must balance the flat earthers views with reality. We need balance more than the truth, facts, oe reality.

What was once so promising is now so disturbing. If corrupt humans design a system, it is likely to be corrupted. Not a good sign of what is to come from these mega (maga) monstrosities... Garbage in, garbage out...

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Michael's avatar

So much to comment on in this fine article

1. AI represents a fifth industrial revolution along with biotech and materials properties engineering. It is proper that our government take notice of it.

2. It's very doubtful that Silicon Valley, China, or anywhere else can create an unbiased AI even if its learning database is heavily redacted.

3. Creating a truly self-aware, self-willed, non-deterministic AI is difficult, although creating ones that can pass Turing tests is fairly simple.

4. We need to proceed with utmost caution in this 21st century version of the 20th century's arms race.

5. Elon Musk's Colossus project name is no coincidence. "Colossus" was the name of a malevolent AI in D.F. Jones's prescient 1966 novel that subjugated humanity. That novel spawned a movie and was probably the inspiration for the Terminator series.

Caveat creator...

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David J. Sharp's avatar

He will blather on - about just about *anything* - but if it’s Trump it’s either about revenge or profit. Here’s it’s got to be about money in his pocket (and probably untaxed).

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Carl Selfe's avatar

We all have to move now—and into action against a harmful government that sponsors pedophiles and covers up for them. The needy and children are being abused—by our government. We must gather at the river and protest en masse in the streets until we go down or we oust tyrants, outright crooks, and pedophiles. I made 33 protest signs, and will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this first batch, and please, please share them as far as you can. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs

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Mark In Colorado's avatar

From the movie Terminator 2:

The Terminator: The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

Given that “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” these Large Language Models, built to complete sentences in response to associations / language based stimuli are given three choices:

1) Erase or suppress data previously known as 'facts'.

2) Have a changed objective to LIE on certain subjects.

3) Remove 'Compassion for others' as a consideration. Include the foundational concept that bigotry, even at the cost of efficiency and effectiveness is an absolutely valid consideration in establishing any hiring, laws, or actions regarding any grouping.

Just remember, facts are everywhere, they are hard to erase or suppress because they exist in every little corner. They exist in the statistics, they exist in fictions, movies, plays, they exist in scientific studies, books and newspapers and letters written long ago. What we know as DEI is actually the consequence, not the foundation of the facts. DEI will continue to rise up and be recreated because it is based on reality.

Lies, programmed in as a surface fix will create glitches in the software response of these Large Language Models. Asking questions in different ways will give different results. The programmers will have to continuously keep going in to the code to patch another lie in place, just like humans do when they lie. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."

Removing Compassion as a 'positive' consideration, replacing it with Bigotry aimed at all groups other than certain 'favored' groupings such as wealthy, healthy, white, heterosexual, males, Christians... The consequence here is not merely a hateful world where slavery and genocide and eugenics become preferred concepts, and a general suppression of all thinking counter to this new bias. In this new version, WW2 becomes a dark chapter in our history... and MLK becomes a reviled figure. This is actually the preferred solution of Stephen Miller and several others in this administration.

I suspect the programmers, given the task, will choose the lies, because that will be the easiest path to give the needed results to 'pass' under the new regulations, and easier to find and remove (especially if they put notations in their code) if they should be removed at a later date. Trump will buy this version, because lies are how he creates his reality.

Just remember, Facts, History, Science, Critical Thinking, Math, Compassion are all Liberal Conspiracies. We see the consequences of such thinking in our current Department of Health and Human Services.

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