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Patrick says
We are far stronger together.
That is what I was saying to Rich Wicks as far as small towns and communities working together and innovating together. That is a way to address and mitigate effects from large-scale dilemmas like currency devaluation.
its like one tree stick can be easily broken. Then have a bunch of sticks and tie string around them; they cannot be broken as easily as the single stick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy
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Speaking of Founding Fathers, I wonder if kids learn anything positive about them anymore in Public Schools.
AmericanKulak says
Speaking of Founding Fathers, I wonder if kids learn anything positive about them anymore in Public Schools.
About 13% of students are proficient in History.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/us-history-test-scores.html
Oh, Google. Those of us in media and politics have long discarded the company’s infamous, biased, completely-unreliable search engine. And as I’m sure you heard by now, the company’s recently-rebranded AI platform caused massive controversy yesterday when users noticed the AI, called “Gemini”, formerly “Bard,” is more biased against white folks than the Black Panthers’ Grand High Wizard, or whatever he’s called these days.
In case you missed the fun somehow — Gemini’s concept of Popes:
Users went wild exploring the boundaries of Gemini’s reprehensible racism. It wasn’t just that Gemini would draw unwanted, historically-inaccurate — but diverse! — characters, it actually refused to draw any historically accurate ones, so long as it was asked to draw white folks, that is:
Google’s AI hilariously produced pictures of diverse historical figures in the most unlikely configurations. The story quickly broke into corporate media, producing many uproarious, side-splitting headlines. ...
Now they’ve shut it down. I tried this morning, and at first Gemini refused to draw any pictures of any people, citing its highbrow standards of ethics and personal privacy instead of just admitting it’s racist. (To be fair, we’ve already seen that AI’s ethical standards can change from day-to-day, which probably makes them something different from standards, per se.)
But within an hour or so the deflated AI had thrown in the towel, and now meekly says its bosses claim it’s under improvement.
So how do they inject their goofy Neo-marxist biases and repugnant racism into the AI? It’s not even the programmers doing it. It’s safety specialists who do it using something called prompt injection. That means when you enter a prompt, like “draw a pope,” the interface adds behind-the-scenes instructions before it sends your prompt on to the AI.
So, the ‘prompt’ the AI gets is different from what you typed. If you type, “draw a pope,” the AI will get “draw a pope from the perspective of a speed-addled Black Panther activist being chased by a pack of KKK hangmen. And make sure the result makes trans people feel more like real women.”
I asked ChatGPT to explain ‘prompt injection’ and it actually gave me an honest response:
Slipping a note, lol. But the problem is, we users aren’t allowed to see the true, modified prompts that get sent to the AI. That’s a secret. To its credit, ChatGPT admitted it:
The AI community barks about safety and transparency all the time. But they are just as secretive and non-transparent as any government skunkworks biolab. However, it seems sort of fundamental, for trust and confidence in the AIs, that we be allowed to see how our questions are being modified before being submitted to the computer.
Google’s racist chatbot just opened up that conversation, big time. Let’s have it. Transparently.
Google's Culture of Fear
inside the dei hivemind that led to gemini's disaster
Following interviews with concerned employees throughout the company, a portrait of a leaderless Google in total disarray, making it “impossible to ship good products at Google”
Revealing the complicated diversity architecture underpinning Gemini’s tool for generating art, which led to its disastrous results
Google knew their Gemini model’s DEI worldview compromised its performance ahead of launch
Pervasive and clownish DEI culture, from micro-management of benign language (“ninja”) and bizarre pronoun expectations to forcing the Greyglers, an affinity group for Googlers over 40, to change their name on account of not all people over 40 have grey hair
No apparent sense of the existential challenge facing the company for the first time in its history, let alone a path to victory
No apparent sense of the existential challenge facing the company for the first time in its history, let alone a path to victory
will the Federal Government , particularly DOJ's AntiTrust unit, still consider Google a monopoly threat ?
AD says
will the Federal Government , particularly DOJ's AntiTrust unit, still consider Google a monopoly threat ?
Google is a government agency. The DOJ was never going to do anything about the government's largest single source of covert data collection.
Patrick, so the DOJ antitrust case against Google search is just for show ?
How does the federal government pay Google for its services ?
AD says
Patrick, so the DOJ antitrust case against Google search is just for show ?
How does the federal government pay Google for its services ?
Yes, the DOJ case is just for show.
The federal government pays Google by refusing to enforce anti-trust law so that Google can retain its monopoly on search.
Lately I find that AI is much better for most searches than search engines are, at least for generic information rather than specific info like where a store is located.
https://gab.ai/ at least doesn't require that you log in, but it's still woke. Try asking it why blacks commit such a disproportionate share of violent crime.
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Allegations have emerged that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration influenced Google’s decision to develop its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) program Gemini with an anti-white bias.
House Republicans have responded to the allegations by demanding that the Big Tech giant disclose influence on its development from the federal government.
The Gemini provoked a widespread backlash after users noticed it had been programmed with a bizarre extreme bias against white people.
The program allows people to type in a command and it will generate an image based on what was requested.
However, when users would type “generate an image of the Founding Fathers,” for example, they would be depicted as non-white people.
The program appeared to have been developed to replace most men with women and remove all white people. ...
Since Gemini’s launch late last month, evidence has now emerged that the Biden admin played a role in Google’s biased programming.
In response, the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee sent a letter over the weekend to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, demanding answers.
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To view my work calendar on my phone i have to add that account, so google knows my phone now too.
Even viewing a youtube video at work i noticed that they have me logged in to youtube (which google owns). if i log out, i can't read my email...
Google is the worst thing ever to happen to privacy.