The conservative radio host's new AI chatbot is part of a broader push to create right-wing alternatives to "biased" AI. The pattern should concern everyone.
There may be truth in the interaction, but not the way Beck had in mind: having an opportunity to converse with something you think is an accurate reflection of a Founder's thoughts and then immediately demanding it dumb things down may just capture something about right-wingers approach to the Founders and American history.
Beck just *had* to interrupt his own fake George Washington and talk down to him before he could even let him "speak". That's how insecure the man is. He had to establish dominance over the digital ghost he manufactured.
He can't both have an "electric fence" that keeps out anything from after the founding era *and* give AI George the ability to "speak in today's language", including using words like "okay" and idioms like "I get it" and "if I'm honest" that weren't used back then.
Funny thing is, if you read things written from that period, they're not that hard to read. The Constitution, for example, if written in plain English, it ain't full o' "thee" and "thou" and "begat" like the fuckin' King James Bible. Of course, when I say "written in plain English" I'm not saying six right-wing Supreme Court Justices couldn't pretend to be confused about what it says and read it as saying the opposite of what it actually says.
That Glenn Beck's effort is literally so cartoonish is almost worse in that it obscures the danger of the mechanism being employed. By itself? Beck's project is easier to hand-wave away. As part of a pattern of behavior by right-wing media? Now it's more troublesome.
This is an aspect of fascism that I wasn't really prepared for: The struggle to keep taking it seriously when so many aspects of it are completely ridiculous.
This is the Pareto Principle at work. Parker claiming 10% conservative use of AI is 90% of the problem when 90% of AI, and all Internet "information" is biased toward the left political agenda.
Sees "left-wing bias" all over the internet, never stops to consider his problem might be with reality itself, which does have a well-known liberal bias.
For example, the internet's full of information about climate change. Evidence of left-wing bias or just a logical consequence of the fact that climate change is a real thing that is actually happening? We all know the answer to that question, even if Frank never will.
There may be truth in the interaction, but not the way Beck had in mind: having an opportunity to converse with something you think is an accurate reflection of a Founder's thoughts and then immediately demanding it dumb things down may just capture something about right-wingers approach to the Founders and American history.
"Look, forget about those other nine amendments, I wanna talk about the one with the GUNZ."
Beck just *had* to interrupt his own fake George Washington and talk down to him before he could even let him "speak". That's how insecure the man is. He had to establish dominance over the digital ghost he manufactured.
Thank you for watching the video so we don't have to Parker! I couldn't stop laughing at the AI rendition in the tight t-shirt. :)
He can't both have an "electric fence" that keeps out anything from after the founding era *and* give AI George the ability to "speak in today's language", including using words like "okay" and idioms like "I get it" and "if I'm honest" that weren't used back then.
Funny thing is, if you read things written from that period, they're not that hard to read. The Constitution, for example, if written in plain English, it ain't full o' "thee" and "thou" and "begat" like the fuckin' King James Bible. Of course, when I say "written in plain English" I'm not saying six right-wing Supreme Court Justices couldn't pretend to be confused about what it says and read it as saying the opposite of what it actually says.
When you ask AI George about slavery and enslaved people, Indigenous tribes and nations, or women does he blow a gasket?
Let's find out!
Oh no, you gotta get through Glen Beck's Electric Fence to ask THOSE questions.
Wait wait wait. Glenn Beck still exists???
It's like when I found out we hadn't yet eradicated polio.
That Glenn Beck's effort is literally so cartoonish is almost worse in that it obscures the danger of the mechanism being employed. By itself? Beck's project is easier to hand-wave away. As part of a pattern of behavior by right-wing media? Now it's more troublesome.
This is an aspect of fascism that I wasn't really prepared for: The struggle to keep taking it seriously when so many aspects of it are completely ridiculous.
"OpenAI’s Sam Altman has warned that AI might become capable of “superhuman persuasion”...
I've seen this quote before, I just want to point out it's a guy who owns an AI company claiming AI will be able to do amazing things.
This is the Pareto Principle at work. Parker claiming 10% conservative use of AI is 90% of the problem when 90% of AI, and all Internet "information" is biased toward the left political agenda.
Sees "left-wing bias" all over the internet, never stops to consider his problem might be with reality itself, which does have a well-known liberal bias.
Left wing creates a meme that says, "reality itself has a left-wing bias" and posts it repeatedly on the Internet.
For example, the internet's full of information about climate change. Evidence of left-wing bias or just a logical consequence of the fact that climate change is a real thing that is actually happening? We all know the answer to that question, even if Frank never will.