by John R. Lott Jr.
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok can be a big help in writing essays, conducting research, and exploring complex issues. But these tools bring risks, especially when they filter facts through a political lens. And the Trump administration is now stepping into the debate. “We believe AI systems should operate free of ideological bias and avoid pushing socially engineered agendas,” said David Sacks, the administration’s AI and crypto czar, in a statement today. “We’ve introduced several proposals to ensure AI stays truth-seeking and trustworthy.”
Over the weekend, I saw this bias unfold in real time.
On Friday, a user on Elon Musk’s platform X asked Grok whether more guns make Americans safer. Grok responded flatly: “No, evidence shows more guns correlate with higher firearm homicides and violent crime rates.” The chatbot dismissed self-defense and deterrence, referring to my research – specifically my “more guns, less crime” theory – as something cited by “right-wing advocates.” Grok supported its claims by referencing Scientific American magazine and a RAND Corporation review, saying these sources show guns don’t reduce crime and instead increase violence.
Those answers are misleading and wrong.
The Scientific American article had extensive biases. Grok ignored my published rebuttal in Scientific American. In it, I noted that over two-thirds of peer-reviewed studies show that concealed carry laws do reduce crime. Melinda Wenner Moyer, a journalist affiliated with Michael Bloomberg’s The Trace, a well-known gun control advocacy outlet, wrote the article. I had provided Moyer with those studies while she prepared her piece, but she ignored them. She failed to acknowledge any of my post-1998 work and misrepresented the findings of the National Research Council’s major report on the topic. MORE
I would ask it: What Would Satan Do?
Aaaaaaaannd fully expect it to regurgitate the democaRAT platform past, present and future!
A computer program is only as good as the programmer.
As with any computer, garbage in, Garbage out. Who didn’t see this coming?
Early internet days, let yer mind drift back a bit… Wikipedia… everyone will participate and we’ll make a fooking world library of all the knowledge on the planet! All love and kisses, sweetness and light everyone in the ten acre wood with the bear that loves honey and gets the jar stuck on his head, the tiger with a tail made of springs, cute little piglet and poor old Eyore… just lovely…
Multiple source verification and heavy convoluted passwords to protect your shit wasn’t part of that.
Leftists aren’t really swift at all, no matter how smart they may be or how educated they may be. All of leftism is based on this fundamental lie: We are not communists. That lie, which when believed allows people who otherwise would never get near a commie motherfucker to go along with the leftist bullshit. And they do. It isn’t politically correct to say a .380 with hollow points is a superior self defense choice to 9MM ball ammunition in a crowd. It’s true, but the lie stands in its way. The lie, ‘we’re not communists’ lets the dumbasses believe the leftist gun confiscation agenda is benign and so allows censorship of anything that goes against the stated agenda.
Elon Musk is a leftist with some straight economic and governmental concepts mostly growing out of coercion -the economic learning- and personal injury, the left taking his son and turning him into an embarrassing and ill fated ‘it’ while he wasn’t looking.
Better dead than red. Kill a commie for your mommy. STOP THE LYING, NOW! As long as AI is being developed by communists and useful idiots it is going to be a piece of shit, one that is valuable -to communists and useful idiots- but one that is depraved in its bias against honesty and truth.
And Walter, don’t forget: kill a Commie for Christ!
If you speak to 100 people 97 of them are Dumb.
If AI learns from the Internet traffic (popularity) rather than science (fact); like John Wayne said,” Life is tough, but it’s tougher when your stupid.”
An AI Chatbot named Grok doesn’t instill confidence it will do anything but regurgitate Godless, heathenistic, fact less, Marxist doctrine.