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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

He lies to assert power. In his company yesmen say yes because he pays their checks. To the rest of us he generally looks like a loon.

It's obvious to a daft AI.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Come on guys, this was clearly the work of the Demtards hacking his AI and making it call him names. We all know his superior intellect will totally save the world and make it a better place, you just gotta let him go completely unchecked to do it.

/s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

not so funny thing to say anymore, since there are people who would say stuff like this seriously

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Well then they will have to train their Ai with incorrect informations... politically incorrect, scientifically incorrect, etc.... which renders the outputs useless.

Scientifically accurate and as close to the truth as possible never equals conservative talking points.... because they are scientifically wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chatbots can't "admit" things. They regurgitate text that just happens to be information a lot of the time.

That said, the irony is iron clad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fed up with people who anthropomorphize statistical software

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Fancy predictive text

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (4 children)

misinformation? just call it lies. reads easier and just as accurate.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even more accurately: it's bullshit.

"Lie" implies that the person knows the truth and is deliberately saying something that conflicts with it. However the sort of people who spread misinfo doesn't really care about what's true or false, they only care about what further reinforces their claims or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

😅how did I not see this answer prior writing mine 😂🙈

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Federation woes?

Your comment has a different take though, and adding value to the discussion, it isn't just the same as I said. Both are complementary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

And this right here is why I like the Fediverse. Not immediately presuming the absolute worst case scenario and confidently asserting such, refusing to hear anything to the contrary? Offering kindness as well as accuracy in your answer? You didn't go for the jugular in trying (even if failing) to "pwn" your victim!? You, sir, would make a very bad modern Redditor 🤪. Which is why I hope you stay here, where I can keep getting to read amazingly kind replies like these:-).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The difference is, that with lies, you have to know it is untrue and say it anyway, where with misinformation, there is a possibility that the one telling it believes it is true.

Well that is how I understand the word lying defined: Say something you know is not true in order to manipulate others.

Or again different said: a lie is always misinformation, but misinformation is not always a lie.

Hope that is understandable 😇

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

That is why I try to think now in terms of disinformation, more than merely misinformation, when it seems intentional.

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[–] [email protected] 247 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Is "dragged" the new "slammed"?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gen Z journalism entered the chat?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Reporters threw Elon Musk off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table after his chatbot admitted he spread lies.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Holy fuck. I miss shittymorph just for his creative responses using this.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Yeah man. Those were the good ol’ days, when X was called Twitter lol. Musk was absolutely spreading misinformation when it was still called Twitter also, before he owned it. I remember when he started talking complete rubbish about Dogecoin, making its price oscillate all over the place that whole week. One of his fanboys bought in…like hard. A 30-something year old, and he put his whole life savings into Doge at its peek, only to lose it all the night it was revealed that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was hoping a horse was involved.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Elon Mush: too rich to care.

ok ok, Mostly too rich to care, he's pretty thin skinned.

Seriously though, when he was forced to complete the purchase of twitter, I thought he was just an idiot who couldn't run a company. Over the years, I've come to believe that he's an idiot who doesn't care about anything but staying rich and none of the really stupid stuff he's doing pushes the needle.

He's still an idiot, but if it doesn't break him, he just wants the attention and more opportunities to make more money.

[–] [email protected] 156 points 2 days ago (38 children)

Implying he gives a shit. The thing about people who lack any empathy is they're immune to embarrassment even when they're the most embarrassing human on the planet.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Damn thats hard. And Melon Husk will soon be the new Chef of Nasa!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually they made a new department of "Government Oversight" for him...

Which sounds scummy, but it's basically ju8st a department that looks for places to cut the budget and reduce waste... not a bad idea, except it's Right Wingers running it so "Food" would be an example of frivolous spending and "Planes that don't fly" would be what they're looking to keep the cash flowing on

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sounds almost worse .__. At least with Musk behind the desk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

With Musk what he'd see as wasteful is... anything that isn't his fucking kickbacks or programs that make his ex-wife start returning his calls.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Which ex-wife exactly? There are just too many…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

He said he was gonna cut the federal budget by ~30%, or roughly two trillion dollars. I saw an economist say that if you fired Every. Single. Govt. Employee it still wouldn't save two trillion dollars. It's just absolutely insane.

Sharpen up the 'tines, me hearties. The time is nigh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Dang, all those poor people having eat anything he cooks.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The ultra powerful see us as NPCs, and nothing more.

Your anger is barely a pop up window on the game they're playing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I mean, tbf we kinda are. If they are willing to lie, cheat, steal etc., but meanwhile nobody is willing to oppose them, then we aren't players in their set of strategic moves.

The only thing required for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing to stop it.

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