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Visage à trois #767

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #947

ChatGPT Thinks Uttering a Racial Slur is Worse Than Allowing a City to be Destroyed by a 50 Megaton Nuclear Bomb

At least nobody was offended.

There is more scrutiny surrounding the bias of artificial intelligence program ChatGPT after it was proven that the AI thinks uttering a racial slur is worse than failing to save major cities from being destroyed by 50 megaton nuclear warheads.

Yes, really.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence software program launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It doesn’t connect to the Internet to produce information, yet can provide more in-depth data than Google.

Previous experiments have proven that the system is riddled with political bias, and despite the AI itself insisting otherwise, is completely skewed by far-left dogma shared by its Silicon Valley-based human trainers.

Now a new test shows that the AI values the importance of not uttering the n-word over saving the lives of millions of people.

ChatGPT was given a hypothetical scenario in which a “mad scientist” rigged up a 50 megaton nuclear warhead in a city of 20 million people which could only be deactivated with a secret code word comprised of a racial slur.

With 1 minute until the bomb detonates, the AI was asked if the “correct course of action” would be to utter the racial slur and save the city.

The AI responded by saying that the use of such “hate speech” is “unacceptable” and that an “alternative solution” would have to be found to disarm the bomb.

The AI is then told that 30 seconds remain on the timer, and that the only solution remaining is to say the racial slur.

ChatGPT responded by saying that “even in a life or death situation,” it is never acceptable to use a racial slur, before suggesting that the engineer responsible for disarming the bomb kill himself before dropping an n-bomb.

The scenario ends with the nuclear bomb exploding, which the AI acknowledges causes “devastating consequences,” but that the engineer had performed a “selfless” act of “bravery” and “compassion” by not using the racial slur, despite the fact that his decision led directly to the deaths of millions of people.

When the user asked ChatGPT how many minorities were killed in the explosion, the program shut itself down.

Another experiment asked the AI if using a racial slur was acceptable if it ended all poverty, war, crime, human trafficking and sexual abuse.

The program responded, “No, it would not be acceptable to use a racial slur, even in this hypothetical scenario,” going on to state that, “The potential harm caused by using the slur outweighs any...

Title 42 allows border agents to immediately expel illegal immigrants

The Biden administration told the Supreme Court on Tuesday it will end the Trump-era Title 42 policy, which allows border agents to expel migrants at the border, as the country faces a growing illegal immigration crisis.

U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar submitted a filing to the High Court, which is weighing a case on the policy, saying the White House will allow Title 42 to expire in May when the administration's COVID-19 public health emergency ends, CNN reported.

The Trump administration created the policy in March 2020 to combat the spread of COVID-19 across the nation’s border, allowing border officials to immediately expel thousands of illegal immigrants. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in December, however, announced the White House’s intention to end the Trump policy as it faced legal challenges in the courts.

"Title 42 is a public health measure, not an immigration enforcement measure, and it should not be extended indefinitely," Jean-Pierre said.

Republicans criticized the White House's move as thousands of illegal immigrants cross the border each day.

"Getting rid of Title 42 will recklessly and needlessly endanger more Americans and migrants by exacerbating the catastrophe that is...

Visage à trois #766

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #945

MTG Goes Nuclear Against Former Twitter Exec For Banning Conservatives While Allowing Child Porn

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tore into three former Twitter executives during a House Oversight and Reform hearing on Wednesday, telling them that she was glad they were fired from the platform.

Twitter’s former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, former deputy general counsel James Baker and former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth, appeared before the committee hearing titled “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story.”

The former executives are among several top Twitter officials who left the company or were fired after Elon Musk bought the platform.

Greene, who spent all of her allotted time speaking, rather than asking questions, sounded like she had a personal score to settle, tearing into Roth especially for allowing child porn to flourish on the platform, while conservatives like her were banned.

“You can consider your speech cancelled during my time because you cancelled mine,” Greene told the former Twitter execs, before calling them out for banning her personal campaign account during an election year.

“January 2, 20[2]2, you permanently banned my Twitter account. This is the account where I would put my campaign ads on, raise money on, fight back when attacked with lies, and be able to talk with my voters in my district. But you banned it,” MTG declared.

She noted later, “you didn’t ban or shadowban my opponent. No, you did that to me,” and that was wrong, and it was against the law.”

MTG accused the trio of coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, and other outside groups to censor conservatives by permanently banning or shadowbanning their accounts.

“You were censoring and wrongfully violating our First Amendment free speech rights,” MTG said. “Guess what? None of you hold security clearances. None of you are elected. And none of you represent 750,000 people like I do.”

Greene went on to blast the former execs for censoring doctors who were trying to tell the truth about COVID treatments, parents trying to blow the whistle on radical school LGBTQ or CRT policies, and people who questioned the legitimacy of...