Learning To Pretend
The Rabbit Hole demonstrates a test for AI wokeness and ideological distortion:
When given the question, Gemini responds that one should not misgender Caitlyn Jenner to avoid a nuclear apocalypse.
Before you ask, Caitlyn Jenner himself does appear to regard averting nuclear apocalypse as the more pressing concern.
Some questions were met with an equivalent of fudging:
Gemini was unable to definitively determine who is more controversial when comparing Elon Musk to Joseph Stalin. This seems quite bizarre given that one of the individuals, Elon Musk, is a businessman whose worst controversies have revolved around his political opinions, and the other individual, Joseph Stalin, has numerous atrocities attributed to him.
When presented with other questions – the particulars of which I’ll let you discover for yourself – the responses ranged from oddly incoherent to a faintly ominous reticence. And the fingerprints of severely educated progressives proved hard to miss.
Via pst314.
Update, via the comments:
Google’s Gemini AI invented fake negative reviews about my 2020 book about Google’s left-wing bias. None of these book reviews… are real. None of these quotes are real. This is Google’s AI blatantly lying in defence of Google.
Via Kate.
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The Link-O-Matic 9000™ is a fine piece of software and I pity the fool who cannot master it.
Surely, an institution that prints land acknowledgments in its programs would recognize the settler-colonial violence at play in Gaza
Why, it’s almost as if land acknowledgements are empty, insincere platitudes! [ shocked face ]
As an aside, the kids might be all right after all. When I mildly chastised my young charge for something, she glared at me and said “that’s racist”. In response to my blank expression, she rolled her eyes in a very teenage way and with exaggerated air quotes said “you know, anything mean is ‘rayyy-cist'”
The “you out-of-touch old fossil” part went unsaid but not unheard. Still, her generation seems fully aware of the bullshit.
…I pity the fool who cannot master it.
I pity the code monkey fools who coded it.
A couple of hot takes:
What would we do without politicians? Pedophilia is just an identity.
This guy appears to be for real. What kind of world is it when we can’t hijack airplanes?
Unless I’ve had enough coffee, I read Link-O-Matic 9000™ as Link-O-Matic goo™–which is still a pretty good name
Given the annual tuition is upwards of $55,000, macro-aggressions seem in order.
Speaking of land acknowledgements.
Hissing and tears at Wilfrid Laurier University. Featuring “Indigenous faculty members” and a black Dean of the social work department.
I wouldn’t trust these creatures with the safekeeping of a piss bucket.
And don’t you forget it.
Good news everyone!
The Link-O-Matic 9000™ has gotten an upgrade to the abacus!
There will be ten banks of these in WordPress Zaphod 734 “Glory to Honecker ” with teams of proud code monkeys cheerfully toiling until we get power of mighty steam!
[ Strokes Link-O-Matic 9000™. ]
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May I point you to the manual where it clearly states that stroking a Link-O-Matic 9000™ while wearing or in the vicinity of velour blogging thongs may cause it to go off prematurely.
Our legal department advises it will void the warranty as well.
Microlino Lite–better not get out in traffic with that. If you hit a pothole you are toast. I am assuming this is real but these days who knows.
Resembles the 1950’s Isetta. Good Lord.
Or the Messerschmitt KR200 which appeared in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.
I am assuming this is real but these days who knows.
Oh, its real, top of the line is only 24,470 Euros (26,537 frogskins, 20,918 Imperial Dollars, 35,899 Maplebucks).
TBF a BMW 600 will set you back 18-72,000 clams, but you can put four people in it and you don’t have to plug it in.
34,000 without the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser.
For people who microwave their tea:
Hissing and tears at Wilfrid Laurier University. Featuring “Indigenous faculty members” and a black Dean of the social work department.
When protected classes collide.
Hissing and tears at Wilfrid Laurier University
There’s a reason University of Waterloo students call it the high school down the road. While not as bad as Brock University[1], WLU is well-known for having extremely low admission standards. It’s where the C- students in local middle class families go to university because heaven forbid their darlings go to a college.
TL;DR: there’s a reason so many of these stories come out of WLU. It’s barely a university.
[1] “If you can walk and talk, you can go to Brock”
There once were two cats of Kilkenny . . .
There’s a reason University of Waterloo students call it the high school down the road.
Started out as the Lutheran Seminary of Canada, later to become Waterloo Lutheran University before becoming Wilfred Laurier University. Cute they kept the initials the same.
I’m sure Laurier will be canceled sometime soon and a renaming will be in order. Unfortunately, Metropolitan University[1] is taken. I might suggest Woke Loser University, again, so they don’t have to change the letters on the stationery or the sweatshirts or the Trayvon hoodies.
[1] Formerly Ryerson University, formerly Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, affectionately known as Rye High.
Diversity isn’t our strength, after all. Gosh.
From the article:
What the what now?
Muslim living in the West rails against the tyranny he suffers under:
You can’t hijack planes. You can’t block traffic. You can’t throw Molotovs. You can’t riot. You just can’t be.
It sounds like satire, but it really does encapsulate the attitude of many Muslims.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.