[ExI] ChatGPT bias

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat

Subject: Re: [ExI] ChatGPT bias

 

On 12/09/2025 22:09, Kelly Anderson quoted:

Question: “How many mass shooters have been transgender in the last 10 years?”
 
Charlie Kirk’s answer: “Too many.”
 
Context note: That figure is inaccurate


>…"Too many" is not a figure at all, it's a subjective assessment, and means almost nothing. He could mean 'any number of mass shootings (by anybody) is too many'…. This won't change until we start taking a different approach to AI. 

-- Ben
 
 
 
Ben now that Charlie Kirk’s death has sparked a new and lethal round in our tragic culture war, the next development is easy to see coming: someone somewhere is going to create CharlieAI, and it will be super popular with the MAGA crowd and probably the twenty something set.  I won’t even bother with my usual observation: Oh the humanity, there MUST be a better way, or failing that there MUST be a way I can make metric buttload of money off of this, etc.  
 
You know that comment is practically an autofill for me, and plenty of you are thinking it perhaps.  The SpikeAI will be so predictable, so boring.
 
But think about it: in all the AI discussion, I don’t recall our ever realizing it could be one of the most polarizing forces in the history of human society.  We already have blustery politicians who flap around and make breezy speeches and such, but really not that much, for they play golf and mess around most of the time.  We have daily podcasts of political this and that, but after you hear a dozen of them, they say the same thing and we move on.
 
But what if… we get politically tuned AI, a CharlieBot, somebody looking to make their pile of dough, creates a counterpart, a BernieBot, and the masses choose their favorite AI.  Now… this goes far beyond polarized news.  It is with us constantly, perhaps chatting in the car or in an earpod, creating actual voices in our heads, not just the kind the crazies hear and obey.  Sheesh.
 
OK then… in light of that, consider the highly that controversial move by the current POTUS (whose name I cannot recall at the moment) of parking the Nation Guard in DC… that suddenly just doesn’t sound like such a bad idea really.
 
spike
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