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.
Have you ever had the misfortune of debating liberals on social media? I have far too often. I never intended to, not once. It was simply the unfortunate consequence of my continuous bad habit of posting stuff on social media that contradicts established progressive orthodoxy.
There is nothing that provokes a leftist more fanatically than encountering a social media post that they do not agree with. They immediately engage in a holy war against that post. The main objectives of their crusade against speech they disagree with is to bully the offenders into silence.
When provoked by ideas they disagree with liberals engage in the ugliest and most mean spirited personal attacks against those that dare voice them. The absolute worst thing you can do if you find yourself troubled online by rabid leftists is show anger. That is what they crave the most. They are like puppies starved for attention. Deny them your anger. Always maintain the moral high ground.
Combating a liberal’s usual diatribe with facts and logic is just as useless as shooting a werewolf with traditional lead projectiles. They are completely immune to those weapons because they have been indoctrinated for decades by our abysmal educational system. They have been brainwashed into believing that reality is subjective, all that matters to them is what they believe and what they feel.
The only truly effective weapon to use against liberals is ridicule. One common side effect of progressive indoctrination is the erasure of their sense of humor. The brainwashing hypersensitized the part of the brain that leads to the sense of being offended. .
Facts and logic dressed up with non-mean spirited and humorous ridicule is the deadliest weapon you can use when engaging in verbal combat with liberals.
The censorship of conservatives, and others of us on the political right, has reached pandemic levels. The main goal of this wholesale censorship is to make sure Democrats maintain power and control over the American people.
This censorship may have begun with the executives running the social media giants acting on their own. This has morphed into an enthusiastic partnership between the Joe Biden regime and the social media corporations. The unholy alliance is chronicled in this article from the Interept.
Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
This is an egregious violation of the Freedom of Speech clause of the First Amendment. At first the social media platforms may have been hesitant, however, they warmed up to this censorship scheme.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”
Joe Biden’s corrupt Department of Homeland Security is at the very core of this alliance to censor those who have beliefs and opinions that differ from the progressive orthodoxy.
DHS’s mission to fight disinformation, stemming from concerns around Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election, began taking shape during the 2020 election and over efforts to shape discussions around vaccine policy during the coronavirus pandemic. Documents collected by The Intercept from a variety of sources, including current officials and publicly available reports, reveal the evolution of more active measures by DHS.
According to a draft copy of DHS’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, DHS’s capstone report outlining the department’s strategy and priorities in the coming years, the department plans to target “inaccurate information” on a wide range of topics, including “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”
As with all tyrannies, the justification for this trampling of one of our most fundamental God=given natural rights sounds the tiniest bit noble on the surface.
DHS justifies these goals — which have expanded far beyond its original purview on foreign threats to encompass disinformation originating domestically — by claiming that terrorist threats can be “exacerbated by misinformation and disinformation spread online.” But the laudable goal of protecting Americans from danger has often been used to conceal political maneuvering.
The scope of this partnership is far reaching.
The extent to which the DHS initiatives affect Americans’ daily social feeds is unclear. During the 2020 election, the government flagged numerous posts as suspicious, many of which were then taken down, documents cited in the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit disclosed. And a 2021 report by the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford University found that of nearly 4,800 flagged items, technology platforms took action on 35 percent — either removing, labeling, or soft-blocking speech, meaning the users were only able to view content after bypassing a warning screen. The research was done “in consultation with CISA,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives. According to NBC News, the meetings were part of an initiative, still ongoing, between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election.
There is a very clear and linkage between the Biden regime and these traitorous social media giants.
There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
Big Tech Isn’t A Victim In The Biden Regime’s Speech Crackdown, It’s An Eager Collaborator. A self-government cannot survive the two-pronged assault from the government and tech companies working together to suppress disfavored speech and control the public narrative
Large corporations have become the attack dogs of the Democratic Party. These mega businesses do the dirty work for their corrupt political masters. This partnership has done tremendous harm to the American people, yet far too few are aware of the harm.
Social media corporations are engaging in mass censorship of anyone who dare to post anything that contradicts the established progressive narrative. This is being done at the behest of the leadership of the Democrat Party. Joe Biden himself has called on the social media giants to censor political opponents, deputizing them.
I have received a great many lengthy stints in Facebook jail for voicing the truth that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Trump, along with a very large percentage of my conservative and libertarian friends. Twitter is far more rabid when it comes to silencing the truth about the stolen election.
Censorship by social media is one of the primary reasons why the fraudulent election was allowed to stand. The economic catastrophe the United States now faces is a direct result of the partnership between the Democrat Party and the social media giants.
Social media corporations censored all news that contradicted the established Democrat narrative regarding the Wuhan Flu pandemic. This kept Americans so fearful that the majority of Americans accepted the trampling of our most fundamental rights. This resulted in an extreme level of economic harm to all of us.
Far too Americans know of the unacceptable level of dangerous side effects caused by the COVID vaccines. Most Americans unquestioningly accept vaccine mandates from all levels of government. The CDC is now about to declare that the COVID vaccine become a yearly vaccine for all children.
News corporations cram the Democrat Party platform down the throats of the American people and denigrate everything the Republican Party stands for. These mainstream news agencies bury Democrat scandals and bury those of Democrats. This is election tampering in the extreme.
Every time a state bucks the Democrat playbook, large corporations scream bloody murder and demand the state change its evil ways. Steps to thwart the Democrat’s transgender ideology are not allowed, neither is calling for an end to abortion, or preventing the Democrats from stealing elections.
Environment Social and Governance is the latest collaboration effort between the Democrat Party and corporations. This will further cripple the oil and gas industry here in the United States.
We the people need to fight against this alliance. Government solutions are not the answer, except where it comes to ending legal protections that enable this partnership. We the people must begin a grassroots effort where we punish these deputized corporations by withholding our business and sharing our displeasure in a public way. We need to engage in a financial and public relations guerilla style war against these corporations who do the Democrat’s bidding.
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