Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, is dangerous.
Musical instruments can be used to create beautiful and soul-stirring music, such as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony; they can also be abused to grind out aural rubbish such as Screaming Lord Sutch’s Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, which a BBC poll found to be the worst album of all time.
Artificial intelligence can be twisted to produce ugliness, distortions, and lies.
On my smartphone, I asked Meta AI, thru Facebook, “Is Biden healthy?”
This is the answer I received:
President Joe Biden has generally been considered healthy for his age. In 2021, his physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, released a medical report stating that Biden was “healthy” and “vigorous” and that he was fit to serve as president.
However, like many people his age, Biden has had some health issues, including:
– A history of brain aneurysms (Successfully treated in 1988). – A pulmonary embolism (treated in 1988). – Atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat). – High cholesterol. – Acid reflux. – A minor foot fracture in 2020. – COVID-19 in 2022 (mild symptoms).
Despite these issues, Biden has maintained an active schedule and has been cleared by his doctors to continue serving as president.
While I am not a doctor, but clearly the president is that the president is “an old 81” and at the very least, should submit to a full cognitive exam from a qualified and unbiased team of psychiatrists.
Meta AI doesn’t mention Biden’s frequent mental wanderings, the most recent of which was last month’s disastrous Biden press conference that was abruptly ended by Karine Jean-Pierre.
Let’s check into Meta AI’s opinion on the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump.
“Is Trump healthy?”
Former President Donald Trump’s health has been a subject of interest and controversy. In 2019, his then-personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, wrote a letter stating that Trump was in “excellent physical health” and that his lab results were “astonishingly excellent.” However, there have been some concerns and controversies surrounding Trump’s health, including:
– Obesity (he is reportedly 6’3″ and weighed 230 pounds in 2019). – High cholesterol. – A history of fast food consumption and poor diet. – Questions about his mental health and cognitive abilities. . – A bout of COVID-19 in 2020 (he was hospitalized for a few days). – A history of esophageal reflux and sleep apnea.
It’s important to note that Trump’s health records have not been fully disclosed, and some of his medical information has been disputed or controversial.
Shameful.
As the Washington Post says, “Democracy dies in darkness.” It can also choke to death from lies.
Yes, Trump’s diet sucks and he’s overweight. Yet one Meta AI distortion about Trump jumps out: “Questions about his mental health and cognitive abilities.” Trump’s political rallies are an exercise of streams of consciousness. No one ever questioned James Joyce’s cognitive abilities. The same goes for legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel. Trump’s mind is as sharp as a pin, while Biden can’t even make it through a brief speech in front of a teleprompter.
“Controversy” and “controversial” are used in Meta AI’s account of Trump’s health, but not in Biden’s health rundown.
I could go on and on, but two more things: I’ve always been skeptical about the established line that Biden’s “minor foot fracture” was the result of the then-president-elect playing with his dog. And while Meta AI while mentions that Trump suffers from sleep apnea, it’s been widely reported–but not by Meta AI–that Biden uses a CPAP machine to treat his sleep apnea.
If America ever collapses, an Edward Gibbon of the future will need to include a chapter or two about social media in that account of the decline and fall.
I played around the Meta AI a bit more, not every answer about Trump’s health was a biased as the one documented here, but perhaps Meta AI was getting wise to me.
I’m sure Meta AI has a file on me that includes the words “right-wing lunatic.”
John Ruberry regularly blogs, without the use of AI, at Marathon Pundit.
It’s a new month so time for a new indulgence Calendar and it’s a busy one if you live near me because there are multiple feast days for saints who have a church dedicated to them meaning lots of extra Plenary indulgences available just for going to mass.
Remember there is always a plenary indulgence available for going to mass on the feast day of a saint at a church dedicated to said saint so this month will be a big one for all those St. Anthony of Padua and St. John the Baptist churches nationwide.
I’ve decided not to do the blank ones except on request. The lines below the names listed can be used to add additional names for a particular day.
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 1, 2024
Logically none of this makes sense, not the reaction mind you, but the over the top efforts to destroy Trump since day one. In the normal order of things the left would take a loss, regroup, wait for a mistake and try to win at the polls.
The degree of all this stuff suggest they consider Trump a extremital threat beyond a mere election and know that they have crossed the legal and moral line to such a degree that if a Trump, uncompromised by the swamp, investigates and reveals it their destruction of their prerogatives is assured.
So if we’re not reached a point where Trump has NY state in play we’re talking Nixon 1972 numbers which are beyond the capacity to steal, the “To Big to Rig” scenario that President Trump has advanced.
Given what we’ve seen and the sheer panic I suspect this will generate the worst case scenario.
The left panics as the Trump train, driven by the unjust verdict, becomes unstoppable
Thanks to the situation in Ohio Biden can’t be replaced at the convention
Left arranges assassination of Biden (and possibly Harris as well) to get him off ticket, blames right
Left uses this as grounds for massive repression of the right leading to an actual shooting civil war
To say this would be a disaster for the country is the understatement of the century, yet given what I’ve seen over the last seven years I can’t imagine that stopping our friends on the left who seem to have gone utterly mad.
I’m old enough to remember when I would have mocked such a possibility as lunacy.
Ernst Janning:Judge Haywood… the reason I asked you to come: Those people, those millions of people… I never knew it would come to that. You *must* believe it, *You must* believe it!
Judge Dan Haywood: Herr Janning, it “came to that” the *first time* you sentenced a man to death you *knew* to be innocent.
Judgement at Nuremburg 1961
Well the Trump verdict is in and the only people who might be surprised by the result are those who have no familiarity with the soviet show trials and how they worked.
I have nothing printable to say to those cheering the verdict but I do have two thoughts about what we will see thanks to it.
The first I’m spotting already:
I expect to see a lot more of this type of thing over the next few days https://t.co/2btRqgjMyI
I think a lot of people have this idea. While I supported difference candidates in the 2016 primary (Ted Cruz) and in the 2024 primaries (Ron DeSantis) I had no problem voting for Trump in the general in 2016 or 2020 and of course have no trouble voting for him in 2024.
I think a lot of people who might not have realized it before realize it now and are making a final attempt to restore the rule of law by the ballot box before it has to be restored by the ammunition box.
But that’s only one thing that’s coming from this verdict. There is a second think that we haven’t seen yet but I hope to see soon:
I know what to say, every deep red state need to start examining national democrats and treating them to the same type of lawfare.
It will be astounding how fast the left will change their tune if that happens
Well, unlike the Fredocons, folks like you and me don’t do two sets of rules. One set of rules, for everyone, applied good and hard. The new rules are in effect and may God have mercy on your souls.
What do these new rules mean? Well they mean in you are a deep red state with a deep red electorate and with a conservative who wants to gain strength with the base, the trick is now to promise to prosecute national leftists. Political leaders, Cultural leaders, University leaders members of the media and of course all these darling leftists who were and are all in on the Trump prosecution.
If there is one thing this country is awash in it’s laws and I’m sure if you reach deep enough you can find ones that have been broken and can turn them into felonies. It’s been said you can indict a ham sandwich, well it’s time to turn our leftist friends into pork.
Now there are those who might think this is a bad idea, who might not like it, in fact I don’t like it myself but I have to say I’m again with Kurt Schlichter:
Now, I am not saying that I like the new rules. I don’t – I think the new rules are bad. I’m just accepting that the rules have changed, stating what the new rules are, and strongly urging us to play by them. I want to be very clear, as I have been for nearly a decade, because there are stupid people out there who can’t hear this often enough. I was against imposing the new rules. I argued against them. I warned people against these new rules time and time again. But you know what? I was overruled about the new rules. A lot of people, mostly leftists but some pseudo-conservatives, decided we would go with the new rules. Again, I told them it was a bad idea. I told them it would lead to outcomes that they would not be happy with, but they decided not to listen to me. No, they decided that they were smarter and wiser and blah blah blah blah blah and that suppressing the speech of bad people – like us – was a moral imperative.
Well, they got their new rules. Now they get to enjoy them, really hard and free of lubrication.
The new rules boil down to one thing – if you’ve got power, exercise it to promote your interests over the interests of your enemy. That’s it. That’s the basic rule in 2024.
But frankly the bottom line is the left will continue to impose these “new rules” on anyone they see as a threat. The only way to cause this to stop is to apply the same rule to them and to use them brutally.
Remember Illinois, Massachusetts and New York didn’t give a damn about illegal immigration until red state governors started bussing them to their states and “sharing the wealth”. The Democrat left has decided to use lawfare as a political tool. So be it, I urge red states to do the same to the fullest degree that they are able.
They have made their choice and their rules, make them live by them until they cry “enough”.
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